ContributorLicenseAgreement

PACT Contributor Agreement

PLEASE READ AND SIGN AS CONTRIBUTIONS WILL NOT BE MERGED UNTIL THIS FORM IS RECEIVED

This PACT Contributor Agreement (“PCA”) applies to any contribution that you make to any 
product or project managed by us (the “project”), and sets out the intellectual property 
rights you grant to us in the contributed materials. The term “us” shall mean the Regents
of the University of Minnesota. The term “you” shall mean the person or entity identified
below. If you agree to be bound by these terms, fill in the information requested below
and sign the PCA where indicated below. Read this agreement carefully before signing.
These terms and conditions constitute a binding legal agreement.

1. The term 'contribution' or ‘contributed materials’ means any source code, object code, 
patch, tool, sample, graphic, specification, manual, documentation, or any other material 
posted or submitted by you to the project.

2. With respect to any worldwide copyrights, or copyright applications and registrations, 
in your contribution:
• you hereby assign to us joint ownership, and to the extent that such assignment is or 
becomes invalid, ineffective or unenforceable, you hereby grant to us a perpetual, 
irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free, unrestricted license to
exercise all rights under those copyrights. This includes, at our option, the right to 
sublicense these same rights to third parties through multiple levels of sublicensees or
other licensing arrangements;
• you agree that each of us can do all things in relation to your contribution as if each
of us were the sole owners, and if one of us makes a derivative work of your contribution,
the one who makes the derivative work (or has it made) will be the sole owner of that
derivative work;
• you agree that you will not assert any moral rights in your contribution against us, 
our licensees or transferees;
• you agree that we may register a copyright in your contribution and exercise all ownership
rights associated with it; and
• you agree that neither of us has any duty to consult with, obtain the consent of, 
pay or render an accounting to the other for any use or distribution of your contribution.

3. With respect to any patents you own, or that you can license without payment to any 
third party, you hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide,
no-charge, royalty-free license to:
• make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise transfer your 
contribution in whole or in part, alone or in combination with or included in any product, 
work or materials arising out of the project to which your contribution was submitted, and
• at our option, to sublicense these same rights to third parties through multiple levels of
sublicensees or other licensing arrangements.

4. Except as set out above, you keep all right, title, and interest in your contribution. 
The rights that you grant to us under these terms are effective on the date you first submitted
a contribution to us, even if your submission took place before the date you sign these terms.
Any contribution we make available under any license will also be made available under a suitable
FSF (Free Software Foundation) or OSI (Open Source Initiative) approved license.

5. You covenant, represent, warrant and agree that:
• each contribution that you submit is and shall be an original work of authorship and you
can legally grant the rights set out in this PCA;
• to the best of your knowledge, each contribution will not violate any third party's copyrights,
trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property rights; and
• each contribution shall be in compliance with U.S. export control laws and other applicable
export and import laws.

You agree to notify us if you become aware of any circumstance which would make any of the
foregoing representations inaccurate in any respect. We may publicly disclose your participation
in the project, including the fact that you have signed the PCA.

6. This PCA is governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota and applicable U.S. Federal law.
Any choice of law rules will not apply.

7. Please place an “x” on one of the applicable statement below. Please do NOT mark both statements:
____ I am signing on behalf of myself as an individual and no other person or entity, 
including my employer, has or will have rights with respect my contributions.
____ I am signing on behalf of my employer or a legal entity and I have the actual 
authority to contractually bind that entity.

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Project Name*: PACT: Protein Analysis and Classifier Toolkit
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