Contributor License Agreement (version 1.0)
Thank you for your contribution to this Lyft software project. In order to clarify the intellectual property rights in the project, and to grant licenses to the project to others, Lyft, Inc. (“Lyft”) requires that you accept this Contributor License Agreement (“Agreement”). This license is for your protection as a Contributor as well as the protection of Lyft, its users, and its licensees; you may still license your own Contributions under other terms. This agreement is based on the Twitter CLA available here
You accept and agree to the following terms and conditions for Your present and future Contributions submitted to Lyft. Except for the license granted herein to Lyft and recipients of software distributed by Lyft, You reserve all right, title, and interest in and to Your Contributions.
- Definitions.
“You” (or “Your”) shall mean the copyright owner or legal entity
authorized by the copyright owner that is making this Agreement with Lyft.
For legal entities, the entity making a Contribution and all other entities
that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with that entity
are considered to be a single Contributor. For the purposes of this
definition, “control” means (i) the power, direct or indirect, to cause the
direction or management of such entity, whether by contract or otherwise, or
(ii) ownership of fifty percent (50%) or more of the outstanding shares, or
(iii) beneficial ownership of such entity.
“Contribution” shall mean any original work of authorship or invention,
including any modifications or additions to an existing work, that is
intentionally submitted by You to Lyft for inclusion in, or documentation of,
any of the products owned or managed by Lyft (the “Work”). For the purposes
of this definition, “submitted” means any form of electronic, verbal, or
written communication sent to Lyft or its representatives, including but not
limited to communication on electronic mailing lists, source code control
systems, and issue tracking systems that are managed by, or on behalf of,
Lyft for the purpose of discussing and improving the Work, but excluding
communication that is conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing
by You as “Not a Contribution.”
- Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, You hereby grant to Lyft and to recipients of software distributed
by Lyft a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free,
irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of,
publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute Your Contributions and
such derivative works, as well as the right to sublicense and have
sublicensed all of the foregoing rights, through multiple tiers of
sublicensees.
- Grant of Patent License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, You hereby grant to Lyft and to recipients of software distributed
by Lyft a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free,
irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have
made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work,
where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by You that
are necessarily infringed by Your Contribution(s) alone or by combination of
Your Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was
submitted. If any entity institutes patent litigation against You or any
other entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging
that your Contribution, or the Work 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
Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
- You represent that you are legally entitled to grant the above license.
If your employer(s) 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, that your employer has
waived such rights for your contributions to Lyft, or that your employer has
executed with Lyft a separate contributor license agreement substantially
similar to this Agreement.
- You represent that each of Your Contributions is Your original creation
(see section 7 for submissions on behalf of others). You represent that Your
Contribution submissions include complete details of any third-party license
or other restriction (including, but not limited to, related patents and
trademarks) of which you are personally aware and which are associated with
any part of Your Contributions.
- You are not expected to provide support for Your Contributions, except to
the extent You desire to provide support. You may provide support for free,
for a fee, or not at all. 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.
- Should You wish to submit work that is not Your original creation, You
may submit it to Lyft separately from any Contribution, identifying the
complete details of its source and of any license or other restriction
(including, but not limited to, related patents, trademarks, and license
agreements) of which you are personally aware, and conspicuously marking the
work as “Not a Contribution. Third-party materials licensed pursuant to:
[license name(s) here]” (substituting the bracketed text with the appropriate
license name(s)).
- You agree to notify Lyft of any facts or circumstances of which you
become aware that would make these representations inaccurate in any
respect.