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"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...

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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 ...


<<<=== OTHER CONTRIBUTORS ===>>>

If anyone other than yourself has written software source code or documentation as part of your APTech Family contribution, then they must submit their contributions themselves under the terms of the APTech Family Copyright Assignment Agreement above...

Please be sure you DO NOT STUDY OR INCLUDE any 3rd-party or public-domain intellectual property as part of your APTech Family contribution, including but not limited to: source code; documentation; copyrighted, trademarked, or patented components; or...


<<<=== RECOGNITION ===>>>

Once we have received your contribution under the terms of the APTech Family Copyright Assignment Agreement above, as well as any necessary Employer Copyright Disclaimer Agreement(s), then we will begin the process of reviewing any software pull requ...


<<<=== SUBMISSION ===>>>

When you are ready to submit the signed agreement(s), please answer the following 12 questions about yourself and your APTech Family contribution, then include your answers in the body of your e-mail or on a separate sheet of paper in snail mail, and...

1.  Full Legal Name
2.  Preferred Pseudonym (or "none")
3.  Country of Citizenship
4.  Date of Birth (spell full month name)
5.  Snail Mail Address (include country)
6.  E-Mail Address
7.  Names of APTech Family Files Modified (or "none")
8.  Names of APTech Family Files Created (or "none")
9.  Current Employer(s) or Contractee(s) (or "none")
10. Does Your Job Involve Computer Programming? (or "not applicable")
11. Does Your Job Involve an IP Ownership Agreement? (or "not applicable")
12. Name(s) & Employer(s) of Additional Contributors (or "none")

Snail Mail Address:

Auto-Parallel Technologies, Inc.
[ CONTACT VIA E-MAIL BELOW FOR STREET ADDRESS ]
Cedar Park, TX, USA, 78613

E-Mail Address (Remove "NOSPAM." Before Sending):

william.braswell at NOSPAM.autoparallel.com

THANKS FOR CONTRIBUTING!  :-)