# 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. **Scope of this repository and contribution license:** Contributions to this public Sencho repository are made for the AGPLv3 Sencho Community product.

   By submitting a Contribution, You grant the public Sencho project and its maintainers the right to use, modify, distribute, and sublicense Your Contribution as part of Sencho under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.0.

   You also grant Studio Saelix a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contribution as part of Studio Saelix's proprietary Admiral offerings, hardened builds, managed services, support tooling, hosted infrastructure, and other commercial products or services related to Sencho.

   This does not transfer ownership of Your Contribution to Studio Saelix. You retain copyright in Your Contribution, subject to the licenses granted in this agreement.

   The public Sencho repository contains the AGPLv3 Community product and may include public client code for connecting to Studio Saelix services. Proprietary Admiral service code, hardened build pipelines, managed-service infrastructure, private registry automation, and internal support tooling may live in private Studio Saelix repositories. External contributors do not receive access to those private repositories and do not submit code to them unless separately agreed in writing.

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.
