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<<<=== COPYRIGHT CONTRIBUTIONS ===>>>

[ BEGIN, APTECH FAMILY COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT ]

By contributing to this repository, you agree that any and all such Contributions and derivative works thereof shall immediately become part of the APTech Family of software and documentation, and you accept and agree to the following legally-binding...

1. Definitions.

"You" or "Your" shall mean the copyright owner, or legal entity authorized by the copyright owner, that is making this Agreement.  For legal entities, the entity making a Contribution and all other entities that control, are controlled by, or are und...

"APTech" is defined as the Delaware corporation named Auto-Parallel Technologies, Inc. with a primary place of business in Cedar Park, Texas, USA.

The "APTech Family of software and documentation" (hereinafter the "APTech Family") is defined as all copyrightable works identified as "part of the APTech Family" immediately following their copyright notice, and includes but is not limited to this ...

"Team APTech" is defined as all duly-authorized contributors to the APTech Family, including You after making Your first Contribution to the APTech Family under the terms of this Agreement.

"Team APTech Leadership" is defined as all duly-authorized administrators and official representatives of the APTech Family, as listed publicly on the most up-to-date copy of the AutoParallel.com website.

"Contribution" shall mean any original work of authorship, including any changes or additions or enhancements to an existing work, that is intentionally submitted by You to this repository for inclusion in, or documentation of, any of the products or...

2. Assignment of Copyright.  Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and for good and valuable consideration, receipt of which You acknowledge, You hereby transfer to the Delaware corporation named Auto-Parallel Technologies, Inc. with...

You hereby agree that if You have or acquire hereafter any patent or interface copyright or other intellectual property interest dominating the software or documentation contributed to by the Work (or use of that software or documentation), such domi...

You hereby represent and warrant that You are the sole copyright holder for the Work and that You have the right and power to enter into this legally-binding contractual agreement.  You hereby indemnify and hold harmless APTech, its heirs, assignees,...

3. Grant of Patent License.  Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to APTech and to recipients of software distributed by APTech a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as ...

4. You represent that you are legally entitled to assign the above copyright and grant the above patent license.  If your employer(s) or contractee(s) have rights to intellectual property that you create that includes your Contributions, then you rep...

5. You represent that each of Your Contributions is Your original creation and is not subject to any third-party license or other restriction (including, but not limited to, related patents and trademarks) of which you are personally aware and which ...

6. You agree to submit written notification to Team APTech's Leadership of any facts or circumstances of which you become aware that would make the representations of this Agreement inaccurate in any respect.

[ END, APTECH FAMILY COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT ]


<<<=== LEGAL OVERVIEW ===>>>

All APTech Family software and documentation is legally copyrighted by Auto-Parallel Technologies, Inc.

To maintain the legal integrity and defensibility of the APTech Family of software and documentation, all contributors to the APTech Family must assign copyright ownership to Auto-Parallel Technologies, Inc. under the terms of the APTech Family Copyr...

This is the same strategy used by the Free Software Foundation for many GNU software projects, as explained below:

Why The FSF Gets Copyright Assignments From Contributors
By Professor Eben Moglen, Columbia University Law School
Copyright © 2001, 2008, 2009, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
The quoted text below is not modified, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/

"Under US copyright law, which is the law under which most free software programs have historically been first published, there are very substantial procedural advantages to registration of copyright.  And despite the broad right of distribution conv...

In order to make sure that all of our copyrights can meet the recordkeeping and other requirements of registration, and in order to be able to enforce the GPL most effectively, FSF requires that each author of code incorporated in FSF projects provid...


<<<=== COMMITMENT TO FREE & OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ===>>>

Auto-Parallel Technologies, Inc. is committed to maintaining the free-and-open-source software (FOSS) basis of the APTech Family.

If your APTech Family contribution is accepted and merged into an official APTech Family source repository, then your contribution is automatically published online with FOSS licensing, currently the Apache License Version 2.0.


<<<=== EMPLOYER COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER AGREEMENT ===>>>

The file named EMPLOYERS.pdf contains the Employer Copyright Disclaimer Agreement.  If you are employed or work as an independent contractor, and either your job involves computer programming or you have executed an agreement giving your employer or ...