uprootlabs / cla

CLA for Uproot Labs

Uproot Labs CLA

How to sign the CLA?

• Clone this repository.
• Make a copy of agreement_template.md under the agreements/ folder with your name. Eg. agreements/john_doe.md
• Fill your details at the end and commit the file.
• Send a pull-request to this repository.

FAQ

This is a short and informal FAQ. A more exhaustive FAQ is available here.

What are Contributor Agreements?

Contributor agreements are agreements between a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project and contributors to the project that set out what the project can do with the copyright of the contribution: code, translation, documentation, artwork, etc. The purpose of such agreements is to make the terms, under which contributions are made, explicit and thereby protect the project, the users of the project’s code or content, and often also the contributors themselves.

What is a CLA?

CLA (Contributor License Agreement) is a specific type of Contributor Agreement, in which the contributor retains the copyright of their work but grants to the project a license for its use. The details of the grant are specified in the terms of the agreement.

Why is a CLA required?

From the point of view of a project, a CLA helps, for example, to change the license of the project in the future. For example, a project which is GPL licensed today may need to be licensed differently tomorrow, say under the Apache License. This is only possible through the agreement of all copyright holders. The CLA is essentially that agreement.

From the contributor's point of view, the CLA clarifies that the contributor retains the copyright of their work.

cla's Issues

How to sign CLA should mention that you have to copy the agreement_template with your name

https://github.com/UprootLabs/cla#how-to-sign-the-cla

should mention

Make a copy of agreement_template.md under the agreements/ folder with your name.

For example "agreements/john_doe.md"