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Contributor License Agreement
This project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
By submitting a contribution to this repository, you agree to the terms described in this document.
What Is a CLA?
A Contributor License Agreement (CLA) clarifies the terms under which you contribute to this project. It does not transfer ownership of your work—you keep all rights to what you create. It establishes that your contribution can be distributed under this project's license, and that you understand and accept the obligations that come with it.
Our License: CC BY-SA 4.0
This repository uses the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Note on license history: This project previously used CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial). The switch to CC BY-SA 4.0 removes the non-commercial restriction and replaces it with a share-alike requirement. Contributions submitted before this change were made under the prior license; all new contributions fall under CC BY-SA 4.0.
In plain terms, CC BY-SA 4.0 means:
- Attribution (BY): Anyone who uses, adapts, or redistributes this work must give appropriate credit to the original authors, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
- ShareAlike (SA): Anyone who distributes adapted versions of this work must do so under the same license—CC BY-SA 4.0—or a compatible one. Derivative works cannot be relicensed under more restrictive terms.
The full legal text is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
What Counts as a Contribution
A "contribution" is any material you intentionally submit to this repository for inclusion in the project. This includes but is not limited to:
- Written content (guides, documentation, articles, explanations)
- Edits, corrections, or translations of existing content
- Code, scripts, configuration files, or tooling
- Issues, bug reports, and feature requests that include original written content
- Pull requests and their descriptions
- Comments that substantively add to the project's content
Minor factual corrections, typo fixes, and purely mechanical formatting changes are contributed in good faith and treated as submitted under the same terms.
Your Rights as a Contributor
Contributing to this project does not transfer copyright ownership of your work to the project maintainers or the Anonymous Planet collective. You retain full copyright over your original contributions.
By contributing, you grant the project a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, and distribute your contribution under CC BY-SA 4.0—consistent with the license terms the entire project operates under.
Your Obligations as a Contributor
When you submit a contribution, you confirm that:
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You have the right to submit it. The contribution is your own original work, or you have the necessary rights to submit it under CC BY-SA 4.0. You are not submitting material that is proprietary, confidential, or owned by a third party without their permission.
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It is compatible with CC BY-SA 4.0. If your contribution incorporates third-party material, that material must already be licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a compatible license. Do not submit content under CC BY-NC 4.0 or any other license that conflicts with CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Attribution will carry forward. You understand that your contribution—along with your credit as a contributor—may be included in redistributed or adapted versions of this project, and that downstream users will be required to attribute the project and preserve the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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Derivative works stay open. You understand that anyone who builds on this project's content (including your contributions) must release their adaptations under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a compatible license. This is the core share-alike obligation.
How Acceptance Works
This project does not use a formal CLA signature process. Acceptance is implicit:
By opening a pull request, submitting an issue with original content, or otherwise contributing material to this repository, you indicate that you have read this document and agree to its terms.
If you are contributing on behalf of an organization or employer, you confirm that you are authorized to submit contributions under these terms on their behalf.
Questions
If you are unsure whether your contribution is compatible with CC BY-SA 4.0, or have questions about these terms, open an issue before submitting. Maintainers will do their best to clarify.
For the full license text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode