# Contributor License and Feedback Agreement

Effective date: 2026-02-18

This Contributor License and Feedback Agreement ("Agreement") applies to
contributions you submit to the Athas project repository.

By submitting a contribution (including code, documentation, tests, design
assets, issue content, or any other material), you agree to the terms below.

## 1. Definitions

- "Project" means the Athas repository and related project resources.
- "Contribution" means any work you submit to the Project.
- "Feedback" means suggestions, ideas, bug reports, or improvement proposals.

## 2. Your Representations

You represent that:

- You have the legal right to submit your Contribution.
- Your Contribution is your original work, or you have sufficient rights to
  submit it.
- You are not knowingly submitting material that infringes third-party rights.

## 3. License for Contributions

You agree that each Contribution you submit is licensed under the same license
as the Project at the time of submission (currently AGPL-3.0, or any later
version if the Project uses "or later" terms).

To the extent needed for maintainers and users to use your Contribution in the
Project, you grant Athas maintainers and all recipients of the Project a
worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright
license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly
display your Contribution under the Project's license terms.

## 4. Patent Grant

If your Contribution includes patentable subject matter, you grant a worldwide,
perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable patent license to make,
have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and otherwise transfer your
Contribution as part of the Project under the Project's license terms.

## 5. Feedback License

You grant Athas maintainers a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free,
irrevocable license to use, copy, modify, publish, and otherwise exploit any
Feedback you provide, without restriction and without compensation to you.

## 6. No Obligation

Project maintainers are not required to accept, use, or maintain any
Contribution or Feedback.

## 7. Disclaimer

Except where required by applicable law, Contributions and Feedback are provided
"as is", without warranties or conditions of any kind.

## 8. Acceptance

Submitting a pull request, commit, patch, issue, discussion content, or other
Contribution to the Project constitutes your acceptance of this Agreement.
