code.gitea.io/gitea@v1.22.3/options/license/Community-Spec-1.0 (about) 1 Community Specification License 1.0 2 3 The Purpose of this License. This License sets forth the terms under which 4 1) Contributor will participate in and contribute to the development 5 of specifications, standards, best practices, guidelines, and other 6 similar materials under this Working Group, and 2) how the materials 7 developed under this License may be used. It is not intended for source 8 code. Capitalized terms are defined in the License’s last section. 9 10 1. Copyright. 11 12 1.1. Copyright License. Contributor grants everyone a non-sublicensable, 13 perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable 14 (except as expressly stated in this License) copyright license, without 15 any obligation for accounting, to reproduce, prepare derivative works 16 of, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute any materials 17 it submits to the full extent of its copyright interest in those 18 materials. Contributor also acknowledges that the Working Group may 19 exercise copyright rights in the Specification, including the rights to 20 submit the Specification to another standards organization. 21 22 1.2. Copyright Attribution. As a condition, anyone exercising this 23 copyright license must include attribution to the Working Group in any 24 derivative work based on materials developed by the Working Group. 25 That attribution must include, at minimum, the material’s name, 26 version number, and source from where the materials were retrieved. 27 Attribution is not required for implementations of the Specification. 28 29 2. Patents. 30 31 2.1. Patent License. 32 33 2.1.1. As a Result of Contributions. 34 35 2.1.1.1. As a Result of Contributions to Draft Specifications. 36 Contributor grants Licensee a non-sublicensable, perpetual, worldwide, 37 non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as 38 expressly stated in this License) license to its Necessary Claims in 1) 39 Contributor’s Contributions and 2) to the Draft Specification that 40 is within Scope as of the date of that Contribution, in both cases for 41 Licensee’s Implementation of the Draft Specification, except for those 42 patent claims excluded by Contributor under Section 3. 43 44 2.1.1.2. For Approved Specifications. Contributor grants Licensee a 45 non-sublicensable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, 46 royalty-free, irrevocable (except as expressly stated in this License) 47 license to its Necessary Claims included the Approved Specification 48 that are within Scope for Licensee’s Implementation of the Approved 49 Specification, except for those patent claims excluded by Contributor 50 under Section 3. 51 52 2.1.2. Patent Grant from Licensee. Licensee grants each other Licensee 53 a non-sublicensable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, 54 royalty-free, irrevocable (except as expressly stated in this License) 55 license to its Necessary Claims for its Implementation, except for those 56 patent claims excluded under Section 3. 57 58 2.1.3. Licensee Acceptance. The patent grants set forth in Section 2.1 59 extend only to Licensees that have indicated their agreement to this 60 License as follows: 61 62 2.1.3.1. Source Code Distributions. For distribution in source code, 63 by including this License in the root directory of the source code with 64 the Implementation; 65 66 2.1.3.2. Non-Source Code Distributions. For distribution in any form 67 other than source code, by including this License in the documentation, 68 legal notices, via notice in the software, and/or other written materials 69 provided with the Implementation; or 70 71 2.1.3.3. Via Notices.md. By issuing pull request or commit to the 72 Specification’s repository’s Notices.md file by the Implementer’s 73 authorized representative, including the Implementer’s name, authorized 74 individual and system identifier, and Specification version. 75 76 2.1.4. Defensive Termination. If any Licensee files or maintains a 77 claim in a court asserting that a Necessary Claim is infringed by an 78 Implementation, any licenses granted under this License to the Licensee 79 are immediately terminated unless 1) that claim is directly in response 80 to a claim against Licensee regarding an Implementation, or 2) that claim 81 was brought to enforce the terms of this License, including intervention 82 in a third-party action by a Licensee. 83 84 2.1.5. Additional Conditions. This License is not an assurance (i) 85 that any of Contributor’s copyrights or issued patent claims cover 86 an Implementation of the Specification or are enforceable or (ii) that 87 an Implementation of the Specification would not infringe intellectual 88 property rights of any third party. 89 90 2.2. Patent Licensing Commitment. In addition to the rights granted 91 in Section 2.1, Contributor agrees to grant everyone a no charge, 92 royalty-free license on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms 93 to Contributor’s Necessary Claims that are within Scope for: 94 1) Implementations of a Draft Specification, where such license 95 applies only to those Necessary Claims infringed by implementing 96 Contributor's Contribution(s) included in that Draft Specification, 97 and 2) Implementations of the Approved Specification. 98 99 This patent licensing commitment does not apply to those claims subject 100 to Contributor’s Exclusion Notice under Section 3. 101 102 2.3. Effect of Withdrawal. Contributor may withdraw from the Working Group 103 by issuing a pull request or commit providing notice of withdrawal to 104 the Working Group repository’s Notices.md file. All of Contributor’s 105 existing commitments and obligations with respect to the Working Group 106 up to the date of that withdrawal notice will remain in effect, but no 107 new obligations will be incurred. 108 109 2.4. Binding Encumbrance. This License is binding on any future owner, 110 assignee, or party who has been given the right to enforce any Necessary 111 Claims against third parties. 112 113 3. Patent Exclusion. 114 115 3.1. As a Result of Contributions. Contributor may exclude Necessary 116 Claims from its licensing commitments incurred under Section 2.1.1 117 by issuing an Exclusion Notice within 45 days of the date of that 118 Contribution. Contributor may not issue an Exclusion Notice for any 119 material that has been included in a Draft Deliverable for more than 45 120 days prior to the date of that Contribution. 121 122 3.2. As a Result of a Draft Specification Becoming an Approved 123 Specification. Prior to the adoption of a Draft Specification as an 124 Approved Specification, Contributor may exclude Necessary Claims from 125 its licensing commitments under this Agreement by issuing an Exclusion 126 Notice. Contributor may not issue an Exclusion Notice for patents that 127 were eligible to have been excluded pursuant to Section 3.1. 128 129 4. Source Code License. Any source code developed by the Working Group is 130 solely subject the source code license included in the Working Group’s 131 repository for that code. If no source code license is included, the 132 source code will be subject to the MIT License. 133 134 5. No Other Rights. Except as specifically set forth in this License, no 135 other express or implied patent, trademark, copyright, or other rights are 136 granted under this License, including by implication, waiver, or estoppel. 137 138 6. Antitrust Compliance. 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Contribution. “Contribution” means any original work of 214 authorship, including any modifications or additions to an existing 215 work, that Contributor submits for inclusion in a Draft Specification, 216 which is included in a Draft Specification or Approved Specification. 217 218 9.4. Contributor. “Contributor” means any person or entity that has 219 indicated its acceptance of the License 1) by making a Contribution to 220 the Specification, or 2) by entering into the Community Specification 221 Contributor License Agreement for the Specification. Contributor includes 222 its Affiliates, assigns, agents, and successors in interest. 223 224 9.5. Control. “Control” means direct or indirect control of more 225 than 50% of the voting power to elect directors of that corporation, 226 or for any other entity, the power to direct management of such entity. 227 228 9.6. Draft Specification. “Draft Specification” means all versions 229 of the material (except an Approved Specification) developed by this 230 Working Group for the purpose of creating, commenting on, revising, 231 updating, modifying, or adding to any document that is to be considered 232 for inclusion in the Approved Specification. 233 234 9.7. Exclusion Notice. “Exclusion Notice” means a written notice 235 made by making a pull request or commit to the repository’s Notices.md 236 file that identifies patents that Contributor is excluding from its 237 patent licensing commitments under this License. The Exclusion Notice 238 for issued patents and published applications must include the Draft 239 Specification’s name, patent number(s) or title and application 240 number(s), as the case may be, for each of the issued patent(s) or 241 pending patent application(s) that the Contributor is excluding from the 242 royalty-free licensing commitment set forth in this License. If an issued 243 patent or pending patent application that may contain Necessary Claims 244 is not set forth in the Exclusion Notice, those Necessary Claims shall 245 continue to be subject to the licensing commitments under this License. 246 The Exclusion Notice for unpublished patent applications must provide 247 either: (i) the text of the filed application; or (ii) identification 248 of the specific part(s) of the Draft Specification whose implementation 249 makes the excluded claim a Necessary Claim. If (ii) is chosen, the 250 effect of the exclusion will be limited to the identified part(s) of 251 the Draft Specification. 252 253 9.8. Implementation. “Implementation” means making, using, selling, 254 offering for sale, importing or distributing any implementation of the 255 Specification 1) only to the extent it implements the Specification and 2) 256 so long as all required portions of the Specification are implemented. 257 258 9.9. License. “License” means this Community Specification License. 259 260 9.10. Licensee. “Licensee” means any person or entity that has 261 indicated its acceptance of the License as set forth in Section 2.1.3. 262 Licensee includes its Affiliates, assigns, agents, and successors in 263 interest. 264 265 9.11. Necessary Claims. “Necessary Claims” are those patent claims, if 266 any, that a party owns or controls, including those claims later acquired, 267 that are necessary to implement the required portions (including the 268 required elements of optional portions) of the Specification that are 269 described in detail and not merely referenced in the Specification. 270 271 9.12. Specification. “Specification” means a Draft Specification 272 or Approved Specification included in the Working Group’s repository 273 subject to this License, and the version of the Specification implemented 274 by the Licensee. 275 276 9.13. Scope. “Scope” has the meaning as set forth in the accompanying 277 Scope.md file included in this Specification’s repository. Changes 278 to Scope do not apply retroactively. If no Scope is provided, each 279 Contributor’s Necessary Claims are limited to that Contributor’s 280 Contributions. 281 282 9.14. Working Group. “Working Group” means this project to develop 283 specifications, standards, best practices, guidelines, and other similar 284 materials under this License. 285 286 287 288 The text of this Community Specification License is Copyright 2020 289 Joint Development Foundation and is licensed under the Creative 290 Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at 291 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 292 293 SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0