@cryptotaxi247 / netdata-1 / commits / 2c78ca5a4

updated CLA with company info and added some comments

Costa Tsaousis (ktsaou) committed Jun 21, 2018 at 02:01 UTC 2c78ca5a408b04cb2ccd35f64b2b78b1d5f24d1e
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CONTRIBUTORS.md
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1 +<!--
2 +SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0+
3 +-->
4 +
5 # netdata contributors license agreement
6
3 -Thank you for contributing to netdata!
7 +**Thank you for contributing to netdata!**
8
5 -This agreement is part of the legal framework of the open-source ecosystem that adds some red tape, but protects both the contributor and the project.
9 +This agreement is part of the legal framework of the open-source ecosystem
10 +that adds some red tape, but protects both the contributor and the project.
11
7 -To understand why this is needed, please read [a well-written chapter from Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software on CLAs](http://producingoss.com/en/copyright-assignment.html).
12 +To understand why this is needed, please read [a well-written chapter from
13 +Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software on CLAs](http://producingoss.com/en/copyright-assignment.html).
14
9 -By signing this agreement, you do not change your rights to use your own contributions for any other purpose.
15 +By signing this agreement, you do not change your rights to use your own
16 +contributions for any other purpose.
17
18 ## copyright license
19
13 -The Contributor (you) grants The Project (netdata) a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute his contributions and such derivative works.
20 +The Contributor (*you*) grants netdata Inc. a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive,
21 +no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce,
22 +prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense,
23 +and distribute his contributions and such derivative works.
24
25 ## copyright transfer
26
17 -The Contributor (you) hereby assigns The Project (netdata), copyright in his contributions, to be licensed under the same terms as the rest of the code.
27 +The Contributor (*you*) hereby assigns netdata Inc. copyright in his
28 +contributions, to be licensed under the same terms as the rest of the code.
29 +
30 +> *Note: this means we may re-license netdata (your contributions included)
31 +> any way we see fit, without asking your permission.
32 +> Open-source licenses have significant differences and in our attempt to
33 +> help netdata grow we may have to distribute it under a different license.
34 +> For example, CNCF, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, requires netdata
35 +> to be licensed under Apache-2.0 for it to be accepted as a member of the
36 +> Foundation. We want to be free to do it.*
37
38 ## original work
39
21 -The Contributor (you) represent that each of his contributions is his original creation and that he is legally entitled to grant the above license.
40 +The Contributor (*you*) represent that each of his contributions is his
41 +original creation and that he is legally entitled to grant the above license.
42
23 -> Note: if you are committing third party code, please make sure the third party license or any other restrictions are also included with your commits.
43 +> *Note: if you are committing third party code, please make sure the third party
44 +> license or any other restrictions are also included with your commits.
45 +> netdata includes many third party libraries and tools and this is not a
46 +> problem, provided that the license of the third party code is compatible with
47 +> the one we use for netdata.*
48
49 ## signature
50
27 -The Contributor (you) signs this agreement by adding his personal data in this document and committing it to the project repo (the same way contributions are submitted to the project).
51 +The Contributor (*you*) signs this agreement by adding his personal data in
52 +this document and committing it to the project repo
53 +(the same way contributions are submitted to the project).
54 +
55 +By signing once, all contributions (past and future) of The Contributor (*you*),
56 +are subject to this agreement.
57
29 -By signing once, all contributions (past and future) of The Contributor (you), are subject to this agreement.
58 +> *Note: so you have to:*
59 +> 1. add your github username and name in this file
60 +> 2. commit it to the repo with a PR, using the same github username, or include this change in your first PR.
61
62 # netdata contributors
63
64 This is the list of contributors that have signed this agreement:
65
66 username|name|email (optional)
36 ---------|----|----------------
37 -ktsaou|Costa Tsaousis|costa@tsaousis.gr
67 +:--------:|:----:|:----------------
68 +@ktsaou|Costa Tsaousis|costa@tsaousis.gr