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# Contributor License Agreement
The following terms are used throughout this agreement:
```
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
**You** - the person or legal entity including its affiliates asked to accept this agreement.
An affiliate is any entity that controls or is controlled by the legal entity, or is under common control with it.
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the Apache 2.0 license; or
**Project** - is an umbrella term that refers to any and all Home Assistant open source projects.
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the Apache 2.0 license; or
**Contribution** - any type of work that is submitted to a Project, including any modifications or additions to existing work.
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
**Submitted** - conveyed to a Project via a pull request, commit, issue, or any form of electronic, written, or
verbal communication with Home Assistant, contributors or maintainers.
# 1. Grant of Copyright License.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, You grant to the Projects’ maintainers, contributors,
users and to Home Assistant 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. Except for this license, You reserve all rights, title, and interest in your contributions.
# 2. Grant of Patent License.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, You grant to the Projects’ maintainers, contributors, users and to
Home Assistant a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent
license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer your contributions, where such license
applies only to those patent claims licensable by you that are necessarily infringed by your contribution or by combination of
your contribution with the project to which this contribution was submitted.
If any entity institutes patent litigation - including cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit - against You alleging that
your contribution or any project it was submitted to constitutes or is responsible for direct or contributory patent infringement,
then any patent licenses granted to that entity under this agreement shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
# 3. Source of Contribution.
Your contribution is either your original creation, based upon previous work that, to the best of your knowledge,
is covered under an appropriate open source license and you have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications,
whether created in whole or in part by you, or you have clearly identified the source of the contribution and any license or other
restriction (like related patents, trademarks, and license agreements) of which you are personally aware.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it) is maintained indefinitely
and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open
source license(s) involved.
```
## Attribution
This Contributor License Agreement is adapted from the [GitHub CLA][github-cla].
The text of this license is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). It is based on the Linux [Developer Certificate Of Origin](http://elinux.org/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin), but is modified to explicitly use the Apache 2.0 license
and not mention sign-off.
## Signing
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This Contributor License Agreement (CLA) was first announced on January 21st, 2017 in [this][cla-blog] blog post and adopted January 28th, 2017.
[github-cla]: https://cla.github.com/agreement
[cla-blog]: https://home-assistant.io/blog/2017/01/21/home-assistant-governance/