If you are working on Piwik at your job, you can sign this simple agreement with your company, to ensure your contributions will be under a compatible license, and can be used in Piwik.
This agreement is strictly between a developer and a client/employer, and is intended to protect the developer contributing code to the project. Since the Piwik project doesn’t require contributors to assign copyright, you don’t have to send us copies of this agreement.
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Work Product Release Form
[FINAL, version 2010-09-05]
Goal
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Piwik Project ("Piwik") contributors who have employment agreements,
work-for-hire contracts, or other agreements that govern their work
products, should have their employer agree to this Work Product
Release Form ("Release Form") to ensure that a Contribution to Piwik
has the employer's consent to license the Contribution under the GPL
or compatible license.
Non-Goals
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The Release Form is *not* a copyright assignment agreement.
The Release Form does *not* alter the licensing terms of third-party
Code or Content.
Terms
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0. Definitions.
"Code" means (i) software code, (ii) any other functional material
whose principal purpose is to control or facilitate the building of
packages, such as an RPM spec file, (iii) font files, and (iv) other
kinds of copyrightable material that the Piwik Project Team has
classified as "code" rather than "content".
"Content" means any copyrightable material that is not Code, such as,
without limitation, (i) non-functional data sets, (ii) documentation,
(iii) wiki edits, (iv) music files, (v) graphic image files, (vi) help
files, and (vii) other kinds of copyrightable material that the Piwik
Project Team has classified as "content" rather than "code".
"Contribution" means a Work that You (or someone in your employ)
created. A Contribution consists either of Code or of Content.
"GPL" means the GNU General Public License, version 3 or any later
version published by the Free Software Foundation.
"Licensed" means covered by explicit licensing terms that are
conspicuous and readily discernible to recipients.
"Submit" means to use some mode of digital communication (for example,
without limitation, mailing lists, bug tracking systems, and source
code version control systems administered by Piwik) to voluntarily
provide a Contribution to Piwik.
"Unlicensed" means not Licensed.
"Work" means a copyrightable work of authorship. A Work may be a
portion of a larger Work, and a Work may be a modification of or
addition to another Work.
"You" means the authorized individual accepting this instance of the
Release Form.
1. Licensed Contributions.
If Your Contribution is Licensed, Your Contribution will be governed
by the terms under which it has been licensed.
2. Copyright Permission Required for All Contributions.
You are authorized, by the copyright holder of a given Contribution,
to Submit the Contribution to Piwik.
You consent to license an Unlicensed Contribution under the terms of
the GPL, and to place the license notice on the Contribution.
You understand and agree that You will not receive any notice,
payment, or royalty as a result of the release or redistribution of
the materials.
Piwik is not obligated to accept any Contribution.
3. Acceptance.
You must signify Your assent to the terms of the Release Form by
email to the individual You authorize to Submit the Contribution.
You may also, at Your option, and without eliminating the requirement
set forth in the preceding paragraph, send a copy of this Release
Form, bearing Your written signature indicating Your acceptance of
its terms, by email to hello@piwik.org.
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Subject Contribution
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Signature Date
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Print Name and Title
See also: Piwik supporters, Professional Services, Testimonials, Merchandise, Tshirts.
This document is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license and loosely based on the Fedora Project’s draft contributor agreement.
