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Adds a CLA so future contributions can be relicensed if the project later offers commercial terms alongside AGPL-3.0. Adapted from the Apache 2.0 ICLA with Dutch-law modifications: moral rights waiver under Auteurswet art. 25, GDPR data-processing notice referencing cla-assistant.io, and Amsterdam jurisdiction. Signing is administered via the hosted cla-assistant.io service (configured outside this repo); the Gist referenced there is kept in sync with CLA.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Contributor License Agreement
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## Background
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The Nextcloud MCP Server project (the "Project") is offered to the public under
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the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPL-3.0). To allow the
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Project's maintainer ("We" or "Us"), a company established in The Netherlands,
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to sustain the Project's development — including through dual licensing or
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other commercial offerings — and to keep the Project's licensing flexible into
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the future, We ask each contributor to agree to the terms below.
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You retain ownership of the copyright in Your Contributions. This Agreement
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grants Us a license that is broad enough to (a) continue distributing Your
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Contributions as part of the Project under AGPL-3.0, and (b) license the
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Project (including Your Contributions) under additional or alternative terms
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in the future.
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This Agreement is adapted from the
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[Apache Software Foundation Individual Contributor License Agreement v2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf),
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with modifications for use under Dutch law.
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---
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## 1. Definitions
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**"You"** (or **"Your"**) means the copyright owner or legal entity authorized
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by the copyright owner that is making this Agreement with Us. For legal
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entities, the entity making a Contribution and all other entities that control,
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are controlled by, or are under common control with that entity are considered
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a single Contributor.
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**"Contribution"** means any original work of authorship, including any
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modifications or additions to an existing work, that is intentionally submitted
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by You to Us for inclusion in, or documentation of, any of the products owned
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or managed by Us (the "Work"). For the purposes of this definition, "submitted"
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means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to Us or
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our representatives, including but not limited to communication on electronic
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mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking systems that are
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managed by, or on behalf of, Us for the purpose of discussing and improving the
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Work, but excluding communication that is conspicuously marked or otherwise
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designated in writing by You as "Not a Contribution."
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## 2. Grant of Copyright License
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Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to Us
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and to recipients of software distributed by Us a perpetual, worldwide,
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non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to
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reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform,
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**sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works under
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any license terms, including without limitation the AGPL-3.0 license, other
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open-source licenses, or proprietary commercial licenses.**
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## 3. Grant of Patent License
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Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to Us
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and to recipients of software distributed by Us a perpetual, worldwide,
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non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this
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section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import,
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and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those
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patent claims licensable by You that are necessarily infringed by Your
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Contribution(s) alone or by combination of Your Contribution(s) with the Work
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to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. If any entity institutes patent
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litigation against You or any other entity (including a cross-claim or
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counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that Your Contribution, or the Work to
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which You have contributed, constitutes direct or contributory patent
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infringement, then any patent licenses granted to that entity under this
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Agreement for that Contribution or Work shall terminate as of the date such
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litigation is filed.
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## 4. Moral Rights
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To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, including Article 25 of
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the Dutch Copyright Act (*Auteurswet*), You waive — and agree not to assert
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against Us, our licensees, or our successors — any moral rights
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(*persoonlijkheidsrechten*) You may have in Your Contributions, including
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without limitation the right to be identified as the author and the right to
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object to non-derogatory modifications. Moral rights that cannot be waived
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under applicable mandatory law remain unaffected by this Agreement, and We
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will respect such rights in good faith — including by preserving authorship
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attribution in the Project's source control history.
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## 5. Representations
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You represent that:
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a. You are legally entitled to grant the above license. If your employer(s)
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have rights to intellectual property that you create that includes your
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Contributions, you represent that you have received permission to make
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Contributions on behalf of that employer, that your employer has waived
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such rights for your Contributions to Us, or that your employer has
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executed a separate Corporate CLA with Us.
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b. Each of Your Contributions is Your original creation (see Section 7 for
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submissions on behalf of others).
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c. Your Contribution submissions include complete details of any third-party
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license or other restriction (including, but not limited to, related
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patents and trademarks) of which You are personally aware and which are
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associated with any part of Your Contributions.
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## 6. Disclaimer
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You are not expected to provide support for Your Contributions, except to the
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extent You desire to provide support. You may provide support for free, for a
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fee, or not at all. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
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You provide Your Contributions on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
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CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without
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limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT,
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MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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## 7. Notification of Changes
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You agree to notify Us of any facts or circumstances of which You become aware
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that would make these representations inaccurate in any respect.
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## 8. Submissions on Behalf of Others
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Should You wish to submit work that is not Your original creation, You may
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submit it to Us separately from any Contribution, identifying the complete
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details of its source and of any license or other restriction (including, but
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not limited to, related patents, trademarks, and license agreements) of which
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You are personally aware, and conspicuously marking the work as "Submitted on
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behalf of a third-party: [named here]".
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## 9. Personal Data
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When You sign this Agreement, We process a limited set of personal data —
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typically Your name, email address, and GitHub account identifier — for the
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purpose of recording Your acceptance of this Agreement and identifying Your
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Contributions. The legal basis for this processing under the EU General Data
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Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679, "GDPR") is the performance of this
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Agreement (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and our legitimate interest in maintaining a
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verifiable record of contributor consents (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
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Signature records are retained for as long as the Project distributes
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Contributions and for any applicable limitation periods thereafter. Signatures
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collected through cla-assistant.io are processed by SAP SE on Our behalf in
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accordance with their privacy notice. You may exercise Your rights as a data
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subject (access, rectification, erasure where applicable, restriction,
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objection, portability) by contacting Us at [CONTACT EMAIL TO BE ADDED].
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## 10. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
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This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in
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connection with it are governed by the laws of The Netherlands, excluding its
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conflict-of-law rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the
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International Sale of Goods (CISG). Any dispute arising out of or in connection
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with this Agreement shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
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competent court in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, without prejudice to any
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mandatory consumer-protection rules that may apply.
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The English-language version of this Agreement is the authoritative version.
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Any translations are provided for convenience only.
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---
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## How to Sign
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This Agreement is administered through [cla-assistant.io](https://cla-assistant.io).
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When You open a pull request to a participating repository, the CLA Assistant
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bot will comment with a link inviting You to sign. Clicking the link takes You
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to cla-assistant.io, where You can review the Agreement and sign in with Your
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GitHub account. Your signature is recorded once and applies to subsequent
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Contributions.
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The authoritative text reviewed and accepted by signatories is the version
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hosted as a GitHub Gist and referenced by cla-assistant.io. This file
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([`CLA.md`](./CLA.md)) is the version-controlled source of truth and is kept
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in sync with the Gist; any changes are made here first and then propagated.
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# Contributing to Nextcloud MCP Server
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Thank you for your interest in contributing! This project is licensed under
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AGPL-3.0 and welcomes contributions from the community.
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## Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
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> **DRAFT — NOT YET IN EFFECT.** The CLA process described below is a planned
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> change. Until the [CLA](./CLA.md) is finalized and the CLA Assistant workflow
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> is enabled on this repository, no signature is required.
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To keep the project's licensing flexible — including the ability to offer
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commercial licensing alongside AGPL-3.0 in the future — we ask all contributors
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to sign our [Contributor License Agreement](./CLA.md). The CLA gives the
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project maintainer the rights needed to relicense or dual-license the project
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while letting you retain copyright in your contributions.
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**How signing works:**
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1. Open a pull request as you normally would.
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2. The CLA Assistant bot ([cla-assistant.io](https://cla-assistant.io)) will
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comment on your PR with a link inviting you to sign.
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3. Click the link, review the agreement, and sign in with your GitHub account
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to record your signature.
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4. Your signature is recorded once per GitHub account. Subsequent PRs are
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covered automatically.
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If you contribute on behalf of an employer, please confirm with your employer
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that you are permitted to contribute under the CLA. For larger organizations,
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a separate Corporate CLA may be required — open an issue if this applies to
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you.
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## Version Management
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This project uses [commitizen](https://commitizen-tools.github.io/commitizen/) for version management following PEP 440 (`major_version_zero = true`, 0.x.x for pre-1.0).
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