Thank you for your interest in contributing to Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH - Institute for Bio- and Geosciences: IBG-1's detl project ("We" or "Us").
The purpose of this contributor agreement is to clarify and document the rights granted by contributors to Us. To make this document effective, please follow the instructions below.
If You are an employee and have created the Contribution as part of your employment, You need to have Your employers approval as a Legal Entity. If You do not own the Copyright in the entire work of authorship, any other author of the Contribution must also sign this.
"You" means the individual Copyright owner who Submits a Contribution to Us.
"Legal Entity" means an entity that is not a natural person.
"Contribution" means any original work of authorship, including any original modifications or additions to an existing work of authorship, Submitted by You to Us, in which You own the Copyright.
"Copyright" means all rights protecting works of authorship, including copyright, moral and neighboring rights, as appropriate, for the full term of their existence.
"Material" means the software or documentation made available by Us to third parties. When this Agreement covers more than one software project, the Material means the software or documentation to which the Contribution was Submitted. After You Submit the Contribution, it may be included in the Material.
"Submit" means any act by which a Contribution is transferred to Us by You by means of tangible or intangible media, including but not limited to electronic mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking systems that are managed by, or on behalf of, Us, but excluding any transfer that is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by You as "Not a Contribution."
"Documentation" means any non-software portion of a Contribution.
You hereby grant to Us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable license, with the right to transfer an unlimited number of licenses or to grant sublicenses to third parties, under the Copyright covering the Contribution to use the Contribution by all means.
We agree to (sub)license the Contribution or any Materials containing it, based on or derived from your Contribution non-exclusively under the terms of any licenses the Free Software Foundation classifies as Free Software License and which are approved by the Open Source Initiative as Open Source licenses.
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Except in cases of willful misconduct or physical damage directly caused to natural persons, the Parties will not be liable for any direct or indirect, material or moral, damages of any kind, arising out of the Licence or of the use of the Material, including, without limitation, damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, loss of data or any commercial damage. However, the Licensor will be liable under statutory product liability laws as far such laws apply to the Material.
The Material is a work in progress, which is continuously being improved by numerous Contributors. It is not a finished work and may therefore contain defects or "bugs" inherent to this type of development.
For the above reason, the Material is provided on an "as is" basis and without warranties of any kind concerning the Material, including without limitation, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, absence of defects or errors, accuracy, non-infringement of intellectual property rights other than copyright.
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If any provision of this Agreement is found void and unenforceable, such provision will be replaced to the extent possible with a provision that comes closest to the meaning of the original provision and that is enforceable. The terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose of this Agreement or any limited remedy to the maximum extent possible under law.
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