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# Gearslip Contributor License Agreement
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Version 1.0, October 2026
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Thank you for contributing to Gearslip. This agreement lets Twink Software LLC, the company
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behind Gearslip, use your contribution. You keep the copyright in your work. You sign once,
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and the agreement covers every contribution you make to Gearslip, past and future.
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## Why we ask
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Gearslip is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (the
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"AGPL"). Twink Software LLC also sells commercial licenses to companies that cannot meet the
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AGPL's terms, and that income helps pay for the project. Offering your code on those terms
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needs your permission, and this agreement gives it.
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## 1. Definitions
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- **"We"** and **"us"** mean Twink Software LLC, a California limited liability company
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(Secretary of State entity number B20260081700), under that name or any other, and its
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successors and assigns.
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- **"You"** means the person who signs this agreement.
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- **"Contribution"** means any work of authorship, such as code, documentation, or images,
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that you submit to Gearslip, whether before or after you sign. A submission includes a
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pull request, patch, or issue attachment sent to a repository or channel we manage. It
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excludes anything you mark in writing as "Not a Contribution".
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## 2. Copyright license
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You grant us, and anyone who receives software from us, a perpetual, worldwide,
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non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable license to reproduce, prepare derivative
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works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your Contributions
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and derivative works of them.
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This license lets us offer your Contributions under licenses other than the AGPL, including
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commercial licenses.
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## 3. Patent license
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You grant us, and anyone who receives software from us, a perpetual, worldwide,
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non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable patent license to make, have made, use,
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offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer your Contributions. This license covers
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only the patent claims you can license that your Contribution, alone or combined with
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Gearslip, would infringe.
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If anyone sues claiming that Gearslip or a Contribution infringes a patent, the patent
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licenses granted to that party for Gearslip end on the date the suit is filed.
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## 4. Our promise to you
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As long as we distribute a Contribution, we will also offer it under the AGPL or another
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license approved by the Open Source Initiative. Your work will always stay available as
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free software.
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## 5. Your promises
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You promise that:
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1. **The work is yours.** Each Contribution is your original creation, and you have the
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right to grant these licenses.
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2. **Your employer agrees.** If your employer has rights in what you create, you have its
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permission to contribute on its behalf, or it has waived its rights in your
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Contributions.
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3. **You name other people's work.** If any part of a Contribution is not your own, you say
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so when you submit it, and you name its source and its license.
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4. **You'll tell us of changes.** If any of these promises stops being true, you will tell
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us.
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## 6. No warranty
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You provide your Contributions "as is", without warranties or conditions of any kind. You do
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not have to provide support for them.
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## 7. No obligation
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We are not required to use or include any Contribution.
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## 8. General
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- California law governs this agreement.
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- This agreement does not change the rights you have under the AGPL in Gearslip as
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released.
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- We may publish a new version of this agreement. A new version applies only to
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Contributions you make after you sign it; this version keeps covering the ones you made
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under it.
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## Signing
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Most contributors sign on GitHub: the CLA Assistant bot comments on your first pull request,
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and you sign there with one click. Your GitHub account then serves as your signature.
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Translators sign on Weblate: it shows this agreement before your first translation, and
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accepting it there serves as your signature.
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To sign by hand instead, fill in the following and send it to us on Matrix. The address is
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on the [Seb3thehacker GitHub profile](https://github.com/Seb3thehacker).
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Name: ______________________________
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GitHub username: ______________________________
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Email: ______________________________
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Signature: ______________________________
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Date: ______________________________
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