# AgentBox Contributor License Agreement

Thank you for contributing to AgentBox.

This Contributor License Agreement ("Agreement") sets out the terms under which you contribute
code, documentation, or any other material ("Contribution") to the AgentBox project
(https://github.com/madarco/agentbox), maintained by Marco D'Alia ("the Maintainer").

You accept this Agreement by commenting the acceptance sentence on your first pull request, as
prompted by the CLA bot. It applies to that pull request and to every Contribution you make to the
project afterwards. If you do not agree, please do not submit a Contribution.

This is a standard, widely used agreement modeled on the Apache Individual Contributor License
Agreement. **You keep the copyright to your work.** Nothing here is an assignment of copyright.

## 1. Definitions

"You" means the individual accepting this Agreement, or the legal entity on whose behalf they act.

"Contribution" means any original work of authorship, including any modification of or addition to
an existing work, that you intentionally submit to the project for inclusion in it — by pull
request, patch, issue, or any other form of communication — excluding anything you conspicuously
mark in writing as "Not a Contribution".

## 2. Copyright license

You retain ownership of the copyright in your Contribution.

You grant the Maintainer a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license
to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and
distribute your Contribution and such derivative works, **under any license terms the Maintainer
chooses**, including as part of a larger work distributed under a different license, and including
the right to relicense and to sublicense these rights through multiple tiers.

You also grant every recipient of software distributed by the Maintainer the same rights, on the
terms under which that software is distributed.

## 3. Patent license

You grant the Maintainer and every recipient of software containing your Contribution a perpetual,
worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable patent license to make, have made, use, offer
to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer your Contribution, covering only those patent claims
you own or control that are necessarily infringed by your Contribution alone or by the combination
of your Contribution with the project.

If any entity brings patent litigation alleging that the project or a Contribution in it
constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, any patent license granted under this
Agreement to that entity terminates as of the date such litigation is filed.

## 4. Your right to contribute

You represent that:

- Each Contribution is your original creation, and you are legally entitled to grant the licenses
  above.
- If your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have received permission to
  make the Contribution on their behalf, your employer has waived those rights, or your employer
  has authorized you to accept this Agreement on its behalf.
- Your Contribution does not, to your knowledge, violate any third party's copyright, patent,
  trademark, trade secret, or other rights.

If you submit work that is not your original creation, you may submit it separately from any
Contribution, clearly identifying its source and any license or other restriction you are aware
of, and marking it conspicuously as "Submitted on behalf of a third party: [name]".

## 5. No obligation, no warranty

The Maintainer is under no obligation to accept, merge, or use any Contribution. Except for the
representations in Section 4, you provide your Contribution "AS IS", without warranties or
conditions of any kind, express or implied.

## 6. Notice

You agree to notify the Maintainer if you become aware of any fact or circumstance that would make
any representation in this Agreement inaccurate.