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Preamble

This preamble describes how to become a contributor to Wikidot. We ask you to sign the Copyright Assignment and License (CAL). The CAL unifies copyright ownership and resolves copyright claims up-front to ensure that the software enjoys legal certainty. This is important to let us enforce copyrights, to upgrade licenses, and to relicense the software. We consider this essential to a successful open source development.

The CAL gives Wikidot Inc. ownership of your contributions and grants you back the rights to use your contributions as you see fit. You only need to sign the CAL once in order to make multiple contributions to Wikidot Inc.

If you are employed as a programmer (even at a university), or have made an agreement with your employer or school that gives them ownership of the software you write, or use your employer's premises, equipment, or time to develop, then Wikidot needs a signed letter from your employer disclaiming rights to the contributed software.

If you have signed the CAL and you change employment situation, you must provide us with a new letter from your new employer.

Parties

This Agreement is between Wikidot Inc., registered address 16192 Coastal Hwy. Lewes, DE 19958, United States, and you (the "Contributor") as detailed:

What is your employment situation?

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Are you working on an employer's equipment?

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Are you working on an employer's time?

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Do you have an agreement between yourself and your employer regarding the rights to code developed off the employers' premises using your own code and equipment?

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Agreement

This non-confidential Copyright Assignment and License ("Agreement") applies to all source code and related material (the "Contribution"), intended to be compiled or integrated with the source code for the Wikidot product, which Contributor has ever delivered, and Wikidot Inc. has accepted.
Wikidot Inc. and Contributor hereby agree as follows:

1. Contributor assigns to Wikidot Inc. its copyright in the Contribution, including any accompanying documentation files and supporting files as well as the source code, in all worldwide common law and statutory rights associated with the copyrights, copyright application, copyright registration and moral rights in the Contribution to the extent allowable under applicable local laws and copyright conventions.
2. Wikidot Inc. grants back to Contributor a non-exclusive, royalty-free and non-cancelable license to use the Contribution as Contributor sees fit, including for the creation of derivative works thereof. This license does not limit rights of Wikidot Inc. and public rights acquired through this Agreement.
3. Wikidot has all the rights of a copyright owner in the assigned copyrights, subject only to the grant back license to Contributor defined in paragraph 2, including the right to enforce the copyrights, the right to license and distribute the Contribution, the right to create derivative works based on the Contribution, and the right to use, license and distribute said derivative works with the Contribution or as stand-alone modules.
4. This Agreement supersedes all prior copyright assignments made by Contributor to Wikidot Inc. under the Wikidot project.
5. Contributor will report, upon request of Wikidot Inc. and to the extent actually known to Contributor, any outstanding rights or claims of rights of any person that might be adverse to the rights of Contributor or Wikidot Inc. in the Contribution.
6. The parties shall execute such documents and undertake such acts as may be requested by the other to implement the letter and spirit of this Agreement and any conveyance stated herein, subject to a limitation of reasonableness of such request with attention to cost and time burdens imposed thereby. The undertakings in this paragraph are without prejudice to the conveyances made through this Copyright Assignment. The intention of Wikidot Inc. and Contributor is that this assignment document will be supplemented rarely, if at all, by other documents.
7. Contributor hereby agrees that if it has or acquires hereafter any patent or interface copyright or other intellectual property interest dominating the Contribution, such dominating interest will not be used to undermine the effect of this Agreement. Wikidot Inc. and the general public shall be and are licensed to use, in the Contribution, without royalty or limitation, the subject matter of the dominating interest. This license provision will be binding on the assignees of, or other successors to, the dominating interest, as well as on Contributor. This license grant shall be nonexclusive, royalty-free and non-cancelable.
8. Contributor is not obliged to defend Wikidot Inc. against any spurious claim of adverse ownership, but will cooperate with Wikidot Inc. in defending against any such claim.
9. Contributor warrants to Wikidot Inc. that it is the sole copyright holder of the Contribution conveyed under this Agreement.
10. EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED IN PARAGRAPH 8, CONTRIBUTOR MAKES NO OTHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, IN THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Instructions: please print, sign, and return a signed original of this assignment to: Wikidot Inc, Pl. Sw. Katarzyny 9, 87-100 Torun, Poland, or scan a signed original and email to moc.todikiw|lac#moc.todikiw|lac.

Download the CAL

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