# Contributor License Agreement

## Background

The Nextcloud MCP Server project (the "Project") is offered to the public under
the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPL-3.0). To allow the
Project's maintainer, **Astrolabe Cloud** ("We" or "Us"), a company established
in The Netherlands, to sustain the Project's development — including through
dual licensing or other commercial offerings — and to keep the Project's
licensing flexible into the future, We ask each contributor to agree to the
terms below.

You retain ownership of the copyright in Your Contributions. This Agreement
grants Us a license that is broad enough to (a) continue distributing Your
Contributions as part of the Project under AGPL-3.0, and (b) license the
Project (including Your Contributions) under additional or alternative terms
in the future.

This Agreement is adapted from the
[Apache Software Foundation Individual Contributor License Agreement v2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf),
with modifications for use under Dutch law.

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## 1. Definitions

**"You"** (or **"Your"**) means the copyright owner or legal entity authorized
by the copyright owner that is making this Agreement with Us. For legal
entities, the entity making a Contribution and all other entities that control,
are controlled by, or are under common control with that entity are considered
a single Contributor.

**"Contribution"** means any original work of authorship, including any
modifications or additions to an existing work, that is intentionally submitted
by You to Us for inclusion in, or documentation of, any of the products owned
or managed by Us (the "Work"). For the purposes of this definition, "submitted"
means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to Us or
our representatives, including but not limited to communication on electronic
mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking systems that are
managed by, or on behalf of, Us for the purpose of discussing and improving the
Work, 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 Us
and to recipients of software distributed by Us 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 without limitation the AGPL-3.0 license, other
open-source licenses, or proprietary commercial licenses.**

## 3. Grant of Patent License

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to Us
and to recipients of software distributed by Us 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 Work, 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 Work
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 Work 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 Work shall terminate as of the date such
litigation is filed.

## 4. Moral Rights

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, including Article 25 of
the Dutch Copyright Act (*Auteurswet*), You waive — and agree not to assert
against Us, our licensees, or our successors — any moral rights
(*persoonlijkheidsrechten*) You may have in Your Contributions, including
without limitation the right to be identified as the author and the right to
object to non-derogatory modifications. Moral rights that cannot be waived
under applicable mandatory law remain unaffected by this Agreement, and We
will respect such rights in good faith — including by preserving authorship
attribution in the Project's source control history.

## 5. Representations

You represent that:

a. 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 Us, or that your employer has
   executed a separate Corporate CLA with Us.

b. Each of Your Contributions is Your original creation (see Section 7 for
   submissions on behalf of others).

c. 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.

## 6. Disclaimer

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. Notification of Changes

You agree to notify Us of any facts or circumstances of which You become aware
that would make these representations inaccurate in any respect.

## 8. Submissions on Behalf of Others

Should You wish to submit work that is not Your original creation, You may
submit it to Us 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]".

## 9. Personal Data

When You sign this Agreement, We process a limited set of personal data —
typically Your name, email address, and GitHub account identifier — for the
purpose of recording Your acceptance of this Agreement and identifying Your
Contributions. The legal basis for this processing under the EU General Data
Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679, "GDPR") is the performance of this
Agreement (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and our legitimate interest in maintaining a
verifiable record of contributor consents (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Signature records are retained for as long as the Project distributes
Contributions and for any applicable limitation periods thereafter. Signatures
collected through cla-assistant.io are processed by SAP SE on Our behalf in
accordance with their privacy notice. You may exercise Your rights as a data
subject (access, rectification, erasure where applicable, restriction,
objection, portability) by contacting Us at info@astrolabecloud.com.

## 10. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in
connection with it are governed by the laws of The Netherlands, excluding its
conflict-of-law rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the
International Sale of Goods (CISG). Any dispute arising out of or in connection
with this Agreement shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
competent court in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, without prejudice to any
mandatory consumer-protection rules that may apply.

The English-language version of this Agreement is the authoritative version.
Any translations are provided for convenience only.

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## How to Sign

This Agreement is administered through [cla-assistant.io](https://cla-assistant.io).
When You open a pull request to a participating repository, the CLA Assistant
bot will comment with a link inviting You to sign. Clicking the link takes You
to cla-assistant.io, where You can review the Agreement and sign in with Your
GitHub account. Your signature is recorded once and applies to subsequent
Contributions.

The authoritative text reviewed and accepted by signatories is the version
hosted as a GitHub Gist and referenced by cla-assistant.io. This file
([`CLA.md`](./CLA.md)) is the version-controlled source of truth and is kept
in sync with the Gist; any changes are made here first and then propagated.
