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Riften Labs Contributor Agreement

Version 1.0

These terms apply to your contribution of materials to a product or project owned or managed by Riften Labs ("project"), and set out the intellectual property rights you grant to us in the contributed materials. The term "us" shall mean Whiterun LLC, operating under the brand name Riften Labs. The term "you" shall mean the person or entity making the contribution. If this contribution is on behalf of a company, the term "you" shall also mean the company you identify below.

If you agree to be bound by these terms, indicate your acceptance by posting a comment on any merge request on GitLab with the following statement:

I have read the Contributor Agreement and I agree to its terms.

You only need to do this once. After you have accepted, these terms apply to all of your past and future contributions to any Riften Labs project.

Read this agreement carefully before accepting.

1. Definition of Contribution

The term "contribution" means any source code, object code, patch, tool, sample, graphic, specification, manual, documentation, or any other material posted or submitted by you to a project. For the purposes of this definition, "submitted" means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to us or our representatives, including but not limited to communication on source code control systems and issue tracking systems that are managed by, or on behalf of, us for the purpose of discussing and improving the project, but excluding communication that is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by you as "Not a Contribution."

Should you wish to submit work that is not your original creation, you may submit it separately from any contribution, identifying the complete details of its source and of any license or other restriction of which you are personally aware, and conspicuously marking the work as "Submitted on behalf of a third-party: [named here]".

With respect to any worldwide copyrights, or copyright applications and registrations, in your contribution:

  • You hereby assign to us joint ownership, and to the extent that such assignment is or becomes invalid, ineffective or unenforceable, you hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free, unrestricted license to exercise all rights under those copyrights. This includes, at our option, the right to sublicense these same rights to third parties through multiple levels of sublicensees or other licensing arrangements;

  • You agree that each of us can do all things in relation to your contribution as if each of us were the sole owners, and if one of us makes a derivative work of your contribution, the one who makes the derivative work (or has it made) will be the sole owner of that derivative work;

  • You agree that you will not assert any moral rights in your contribution against us, our licensees or transferees;

  • You agree that we may register a copyright in your contribution and exercise all ownership rights associated with it; and

  • You agree that neither of us has any duty to consult with, obtain the consent of, pay or render an accounting to the other for any use or distribution of your contribution.

3. Patents

With respect to any patents you own, or that you can license without payment to any third party, you hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free license to:

  • make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise transfer your contribution in whole or in part, alone or in combination with or included in any product, work or materials arising out of the project to which your contribution was submitted; and

  • at our option, to sublicense these same rights to third parties through multiple levels of sublicensees or other licensing arrangements.

If any entity institutes patent litigation against us or any other entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that your contribution, or the project to which you have contributed, constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to that entity under this agreement for that contribution or project shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

4. Retention of Rights

Except as set out above, you keep all right, title, and interest in your contribution. The rights that you grant to us under these terms are effective on the date you first submitted a contribution to us, even if your submission took place before the date you accept these terms.

Any contribution we make available under any license will also be made available under the open source license applicable to the project at the time the contribution is made available, as determined by us.

5. Representations

With respect to your contribution, you represent that:

  • It is an original work and that you can legally grant the rights set out in these terms;

  • It does not to the best of your knowledge violate any third party's copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property rights;

  • If your employer has rights to intellectual property that you create that includes your contributions, you represent that you have received permission to make contributions on behalf of that employer, or that your employer has waived such rights for your contributions; and

  • You are authorized to accept this agreement on behalf of your company (if applicable).

6. Disclaimer

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, you provide your contributions on an "AS IS" basis, without warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of title, non-infringement, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

7. Notification

You agree to notify us of any facts or circumstances of which you become aware that would make the representations in Section 5 inaccurate in any respect.

8. Governing Law

These terms will be governed by the laws of the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis. Any choice of law rules will not apply.

9. Miscellaneous

If any provision of this agreement is found void or unenforceable, such provision will be replaced to the extent possible with a provision that comes closest to the meaning of the original provision and which is enforceable. The remaining provisions of this agreement will continue in full force and effect.