# Sencho Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Sencho!

In order to clarify the intellectual property license granted with Contributions from any person or entity, Sencho requires that every contributor signs a Contributor License Agreement ("CLA"). 

By signing this CLA (which is handled automatically on your first Pull Request via a GitHub comment), you agree to the following terms:

1. **Grant of License:** You grant Sencho and its maintainers 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.
2. **Commercial Use:** You understand and agree that your contributions may be used in commercial products and services, including those locked behind tier gates (Skipper, Admiral), and you grant the project the right to do so under the project's licensing model (Business Source License 1.1 / Apache 2.0).
3. **Original Work:** You represent that you are legally entitled to grant the above license. If your employer(s) has 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.

This agreement does NOT transfer ownership of your code. You retain ownership of the Copyright in Your Contributions and have the same rights to use or license the Contributions which you would have had without entering into this Agreement.
