Copyright Assignment

Thank you for considering assigning your copyright to the Software Freedom Conservancy. Your assignment helps us enforce free and open source software licenses.

By filling in and submitting the below form, you agree to assign your copyrights in the specified projects to Software Freedom Conservancy, which means that Conservancy can enforce the licenses for your code in court, minimizing the need for you to be involved. Conservancy agrees to keep your code under a free and open source license.

If you have any questions about assigning your copyright to Conservancy, please don't hesitate to email us at copyright-assignment@sfconservancy.org.

Full name:

Email address (to contact you if we have questions):

Country of residence:

Code repositories containing contributions of yours whose copyright you are assigning: List of URLs, one per line

All email addresses or other unique user identities, such as nicknames or handles, used by you to contribute to the above (i.e. in the commit logs):

Assign the copyright in my above contributions starting on: You can use the day you first started contributing (or, equivalently, your date of birth), or any later date.

and ending on:

all future contributions (no end date)

a specific past date (specify below)

Specific past date (if applicable):

Agreement terms: Copyright Assignment Agreement By checking the box below and submitting this form, you (``Assignor'') enter into this Agreement between Assignor and the Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc., a New York nonprofit corporation located in Brooklyn, New York, which has received recognition of exemption from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and classification as a public charity (the ``Conservancy''). For good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, Assignor hereby transfers to the Conservancy their entire right, title, and interest in the copyrights in the works identified by the repositories, email addresses, names, and time periods listed above (the “Works”), including all claims, causes of action and remedies for past, present and future infringement. To the extent that the Assignor is assigning future rights, and the rights in future works do not vest in Conservancy upon the Works’ creation, Assignor agrees to assign, immediately following the creation, all rights to Conservancy and irrevocably appoints Conservancy as their attorney-in-fact to take any necessary steps to perfect Conservancy’s rights under this Agreement. The Conservancy will use its discretion for any relicensing of the Works under other free and open source software licenses. Decisions about relicensing made by Conservancy will apply to its assignees and successors. If you have any questions about Conservancy's relicensing philosophy, and what limitations it may have because it is a public charity, please contact us at copyright-assignment@sfconservancy.org . The Conservancy hereby grants Assignor a royalty-free non-exclusive license to use the interests assigned hereunder for any purpose. The Conservancy's rights shall otherwise continue unchanged. Assignor hereby grants to the Conservancy and to recipients of software distributed by the Conservancy a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Works, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by Assignor that are necessarily infringed by the Works alone or by combination of Assignor's contributions with the Works to which such contributions were submitted. Assignor hereby represents and warrants that the email addresses and user identities identified above are unique to the Assignor, that no one but the Assignor has made contributions using the email addresses and user identities identified above, that the Assignor is the sole copyright holder for the Works assigned hereunder, and that the Assignor has the right and power to enter into this contract. Assignor hereby indemnifies and holds harmless the Conservancy, its officers, employees, agents, successors, and assigns against any and all claims, actions or damages (including reasonable attorney's fees) asserted by or paid to any party on account of a breach or alleged breach of the foregoing warranty. Assignor makes no other express or implied warranty (including without limitation any warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE).

By checking the box below, I am confirming that I agree to be bound by the terms of the Copyright Assignment Agreement above.

Please be aware that your employer or a contractor may own the rights in your work by virtue of their employment of you or by explicit transfer of ownership in an agreement. We recommend you review any relevant agreements or consult with a lawyer if you are not sure.

After submitting this agreement, if you would like to make any changes, you must let us know within 7 days by emailing copyright-assignment@sfconservancy.org, which is also where you can reach us if you have any questions.