# Assay Contributor License Agreement
Thank you for your interest in contributing to Assay (the "Project"), maintained
by Nayeem Syed (the "Project Owner").
This Contributor License Agreement ("Agreement") clarifies the intellectual
property license granted with Contributions from any person or entity to the
Project. It protects You, the Project Owner, and users of the Project; it does
not change Your rights to use Your own Contributions for any other purpose.
By submitting a Contribution to the Project (for example, by opening a pull
request and acknowledging this Agreement via the CLA Assistant comment), You
accept and agree to the following terms for Your present and future
Contributions submitted to the Project.
## 1. Definitions
**"You"** (or **"Your"**) means the copyright owner or legal entity authorized
by the copyright owner that is making this Agreement with the Project Owner.
**"Contribution"** means any original work of authorship, including any
modifications or additions to an existing work, that is intentionally submitted
by You to the Project for inclusion in, or documentation of, the Project. For
the purposes of this definition, "submitted" means any form of electronic,
verbal, or written communication sent to the Project or its maintainers,
including but not limited to communication on issue trackers, source code
control systems, and mailing lists, but excluding communication that is
conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by You as
"Not a Contribution."
## 2. Grant of Copyright License
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to the
Project Owner and to recipients of software distributed by the Project Owner 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 such
derivative works **under any license terms, including but not limited to**
the Apache License, Version 2.0, **and including under proprietary or
commercial license terms**.
This means: You retain the copyright to Your Contribution, but You grant the
Project Owner the right to relicense the Project (including Your Contribution)
under different terms in the future, and to include Your Contribution in
proprietary or commercial editions of the Project or related products.
## 3. Grant of Patent License
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to the
Project Owner and to recipients of software distributed by the Project Owner 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 Project, 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 Project 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 Project 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 Project shall terminate
as of the date such litigation is filed.
## 4. You Have the Right to Grant This License
You represent that:
1. You are legally entitled to grant the above license. If Your employer(s)
have 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 the Project, or that Your employer
has executed a separate agreement with the Project Owner.
2. Each of Your Contributions is Your original creation (see Section 5 for
submissions on behalf of others).
3. 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.
## 5. Submissions of Work That Is Not Your Original Creation
Should You wish to submit work that is not Your original creation, You may
submit it to the Project 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 "Submitted on behalf of a third-party: [named here]".
## 6. No Obligation
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.
## 7. Notice of Changes
You agree to notify the Project Owner of any facts or circumstances of which
You become aware that would make the representations in this Agreement
inaccurate in any respect.
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## How to sign
When You open a pull request, the **CLA Assistant** bot will post a comment
asking You to sign this Agreement. You sign by clicking the link in the bot's
comment and agreeing to these terms with Your GitHub account. You only need to
sign once — the signature applies to all Your future Contributions to the
Project.
If You are contributing on behalf of an employer, please ensure You have Your
employer's permission before signing.