CONTRIBUTOR_LICENSE_AGREEMENT.md

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# YourHand Community — Individual Contributor License Agreement (version 1.1)

**Rights recipient:** Ahmed Zaki, acting as an individual project maintainer ("Maintainer"). **Contributor:** the natural person who affirmatively accepts this agreement through the designated contributor-signing service ("You"). **Project:** the official open-source YourHand-Community repository at https://github.com/archahmedzaki/YourHand-Community and the Maintainer's separately licensed YourHand editions.

**Important:** This is a non-exclusive license, **not** an assignment or sale of Your copyright. The Maintainer has adopted these terms for the Project; no claim is made that this document has been certified by a lawyer or is enforceable in every jurisdiction. Review the terms and obtain independent legal advice if You need it. Do not sign for rights You do not control.

## 1. Contributions covered

"Contribution" means an original work of authorship, including code, documentation, designs, tests and revisions, that You intentionally submit by pull request or another written process expressly designated by the Maintainer for inclusion in this Project **after accepting this version** of the agreement. Material conspicuously identified in writing as "Not a Contribution", unsolicited third-party works, unrelated repositories and work not submitted by You are excluded. Each contribution remains subject to human review; acceptance does not require the Maintainer to merge it.

## 2. Non-exclusive copyright permission, including proprietary editions

For each Contribution to which You own or control sufficient rights, You grant the Maintainer and the Maintainer's authorized successors and assignees a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable and sublicensable copyright license, to the extent allowed by applicable law, to use, reproduce, modify, prepare derivative works of, compile, publicly perform and display, distribute, make available over a network, sell and otherwise exploit the Contribution and derivative works in source-code and binary form.

**You expressly authorize dual licensing and commercial use:** the Maintainer may include Your Contribution in the AGPL-3.0-only Community edition **and** in separately licensed, commercial, proprietary/closed-source desktop, hosted, SaaS or other YourHand editions, and may grant downstream proprietary licenses and sublicenses for those editions without requesting a separate permission or paying a separate royalty. The Maintainer may license eligible contributions under different terms while respecting every right already granted to recipients of any published AGPL-covered version.

You retain ownership of Your own original work and may use, modify, distribute or license it elsewhere. You do not assign copyright or transfer ownership by signing this agreement. The license does not authorize the Maintainer to relicense material for which You lack sufficient rights.

## 3. Patent permission limited to controlled claims

To the extent You own or control the right to license patents, You grant the Maintainer and lawful downstream recipients a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import and otherwise exploit Your Contribution in the Project and separately licensed YourHand editions, **only for patent claims that would necessarily be infringed by Your Contribution alone or by Your Contribution as intentionally combined with the Project version to which You submitted it**. This section does not grant rights in patents belonging to an employer, co-owner or other party unless You actually have authority to grant those rights.

## 4. Ownership, third-party rights and employer permission

You represent that You are legally entitled to grant the rights You are granting, and that You will identify known third-party code, license notices, confidentiality restrictions, co-authors and employment/contractual ownership restrictions in the relevant pull request. You must not submit a private client's code, another person's work, or employer-owned work without the relevant rights holder's authorization.

**If Your employer or a company owns or controls relevant rights, Your individual signature alone is not enough.** An authorized signatory of that company must execute an appropriate separate corporate permission/CLA and the Maintainer must verify its scope before accepting that material. Similarly, a GitHub account, personal email or checked PR box does not independently prove legal authorship or employer authority.

This agreement does not take away third parties' rights, supersede incompatible third-party software licenses, or negate the rights of recipients who previously received a contribution under AGPL or other valid terms.

## 5. Signature, evidence and changes

You accept these terms only by **personally posting the exact, versioned acceptance statement expressly provided in the Project's contributor instructions as a comment on Your pull request**, while signed in to Your own GitHub account. The statement identifies this agreement's version, public document URL and SHA-256 and expressly affirms Your rights to license the work. The Project's GitHub Actions consent checker verifies the authenticated comment author, exact statement, document hash, PR and commit; this does not independently verify Your legal identity or ownership of employer or co-author rights. Opening a pull request, merely viewing this file, reacting to a comment, or checking an unrelated PR-template box alone does **not** constitute acceptance. The acceptance statement and Your GitHub username, comment timestamp, version and PR metadata are publicly visible on GitHub. If You do not wish to leave that public acceptance record, **do not post the statement**; contact the Maintainer before contributing to discuss a private, separately signed agreement.

Material changes to this version require Your separate affirmative acceptance for later Contributions; the Maintainer will not change the signed version retroactively. The Maintainer may request separate documentation of legal identity, corporate authority or rights provenance **privately** before accepting a Contribution. Do not upload signatures, national IDs, client files or private employment documents into public issues.

## 6. No obligation to provide support; mandatory rights

You are not required to maintain or support Your Contributions unless separately agreed. Subject to applicable mandatory law, Contributions are provided as-is, without an independent warranty of error-free operation or fitness for a particular purpose. Nothing here waives rights that applicable law makes non-waivable, and this agreement does not promise that online acknowledgment meets every jurisdiction's qualified digital-signature requirements.

**Version:** 1.1 — The authoritative text is the immutable SHA-256-identified public Gist revision named in the exact acceptance statement. The GitHub PR comment and its author/timestamp are public evidence of assent; the Maintainer must keep any separate identity, employer-authorization or corporate-signature evidence private.