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Flectar Contributor License Agreement 1.0

This Contributor License Agreement (“Agreement”) is between the person or entity accepting it (“You”) and Flectar, the steward of the Flectar Mail project (“Flectar”). It applies to every Contribution You intentionally submit to a Flectar-managed repository after accepting this Agreement.

1. Definitions

“Contribution” means any original work of authorship, including code, documentation, designs, tests, translations, or modifications, intentionally submitted by You for inclusion in the project. A submission marked in writing as “Not a Contribution” is excluded.

“Submit” includes communication through a source-control system, pull request, issue tracker, code-review system, mailing list, or other channel Flectar uses to receive project contributions.

2. Copyright license

You grant Flectar and recipients of software distributed by Flectar 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 Your Contributions and derivative works of them as part of Flectar Mail under AGPL-3.0-only.

You retain copyright ownership and may use and license Your Contributions independently. This Agreement does not authorize Flectar to publish an accepted client Contribution solely as proprietary software. A different license for a Contribution requires a separate agreement from its copyright holder.

3. Patent license

You grant Flectar and recipients of software distributed by Flectar a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Contribution. This grant applies only to patent claims You can license that are necessarily infringed by Your Contribution alone or by its combination with the project to which You submitted it.

If You initiate patent litigation alleging that the project or a Contribution in it infringes a patent, patent licenses granted to You under this Agreement for that project terminate as of the filing date.

4. Your assurances

You represent that:

• You are legally entitled to grant the licenses in this Agreement;
• each Contribution is Your original creation, except for third-party material that You clearly identify together with its source and license;
• Your submission does not knowingly violate another person's copyright, patent, trade secret, contract, privacy, or other rights;
• if an employer or another entity may own the Contribution, You have received permission to contribute it under this Agreement; and
• You will notify Flectar if any of these statements later becomes inaccurate.

Flectar may require an authorized representative of an employer or other owner to execute a separate corporate agreement before accepting the Contribution.

5. No support or warranty

You are not required to provide support for a Contribution. Unless separately agreed in writing, Contributions are provided “as is”, without warranties or conditions of any kind.

6. Public record and personal information

Flectar may retain and publish Your name, account identifier, contribution history, and acceptance record as reasonably necessary to administer project rights and provide attribution. Do not include private credentials, private mail, or unnecessary personal information in a Contribution.

7. Acceptance and future versions

You accept this Agreement by affirmatively checking the CLA acceptance box in a pull request and submitting that pull request. Flectar may also use a CLA service that records the same acceptance. The repository's contribution process identifies the version accepted.

Flectar may publish a new CLA version for future Contributions. A new version does not apply retroactively unless You accept it. This Agreement is the entire agreement concerning the licenses granted for Contributions under it and may be amended for a particular Contribution only in a writing accepted by both You and Flectar.