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# Contributor License Agreement
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The following terms are used throughout this agreement:
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**You** - the person or legal entity including its affiliates asked to accept this agreement.
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An affiliate is any entity that controls or is controlled by the legal entity, or is under common control with it.
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**Project** - is an umbrella term that refers to any and all Home Assistant open source projects.
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**Contribution** - any type of work that is submitted to a Project, including any modifications or additions to existing work.
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**Submitted** - conveyed to a Project via a pull request, commit, issue, or any form of electronic, written, or
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verbal communication with Home Assistant, contributors or maintainers.
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# 1. Grant of Copyright License.
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Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, You grant to the Projects’ maintainers, contributors,
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users and to Home Assistant a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce,
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prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your contributions and such
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derivative works. Except for this license, You reserve all rights, title, and interest in your contributions.
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# 2. Grant of Patent License.
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Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, You grant to the Projects’ maintainers, contributors, users and to
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Home Assistant a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent
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license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer your contributions, where such license
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applies only to those patent claims licensable by you that are necessarily infringed by your contribution or by combination of
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your contribution with the project to which this contribution was submitted.
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If any entity institutes patent litigation - including cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit - against You alleging that
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your contribution or any project it was submitted to constitutes or is responsible for direct or contributory patent infringement,
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then any patent licenses granted to that entity under this agreement shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
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# 3. Source of Contribution.
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Your contribution is either your original creation, based upon previous work that, to the best of your knowledge,
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is covered under an appropriate open source license and you have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications,
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whether created in whole or in part by you, or you have clearly identified the source of the contribution and any license or other
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restriction (like related patents, trademarks, and license agreements) of which you are personally aware.
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## Attribution
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This Contributor License Agreement is adapted from the [GitHub CLA][github-cla].
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## Signing
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To sign this CLA you must first submit a pull request to a repository under the Home Assistant organization.
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## Adoption
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This Contributor License Agreement (CLA) was first announced on January 21st, 2017 in [this][cla-blog] blog post and adopted January 28th, 2017.
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[github-cla]: https://cla.github.com/agreement
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[cla-blog]: https://home-assistant.io/blog/2017/01/21/home-assistant-governance/
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