meta/processes/cla.md

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Contributor License Agreement

to contribute to ButtCloud, you must first sign a Contributor License Agreeement.

why?

@ahdinosaur, the steward of ButtCloud, is committed to open source, at the moment all the code is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 copyleft licence.

but we don't the ButtCloud project to be locked in to a legacy license, when promising new licenses such as a License Zero explore new legal territories, where we may in the future want to move to a peer production, copyfarleft, or reciprocity license.

a Contributor License Agreement, as implemented here, allows contributors to grant a broad license to @ahdinosaur, the steward of ButtCloud.

how?

once you contribute something significant, @ahdinosaur will contact you and setup a digital signature process using HelloSign.

the document to sign is this Individual Contributor License Agreement.

after you sign, the document will be uploaded to a drive for safe storage.