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Hydra Individual Contributor License Agreement

In brief: You keep ownership of your contributions. This Agreement gives Omry Yadan, acting as Hydra project steward, the rights needed to use, maintain, distribute, and relicense material that you intentionally contribute. It does not cover unrelated work or unrelated patents. The Hydra steward may license your contribution commercially, but must also license it under the license or licenses used for the relevant Hydra material when you submitted it. The licenses are royalty-free. The full terms below control.

Before proceeding: Most contributors should sign this Individual CLA. Make sure you have the right to grant the rights in this Agreement. If employment, confidentiality, invention-assignment, academic, funding, or similar obligations require an approval or waiver, obtain it before signing or contributing. Employment alone does not automatically require an Entity CLA, which is an agreement signed by a company, university, nonprofit, or other organization. If you cannot obtain a required approval or waiver, do not sign or contribute. If your employer wants to contribute to Hydra, contact the Hydra maintainers about an Entity CLA. Entity CLAs are handled manually, may take additional time, and must use Hydra's standard agreement; Hydra generally will not negotiate alternative terms. You must be at least eighteen years old to sign this Individual CLA.

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Hydra. In this Agreement, "Hydra" means the open-source software project, and "We" or "Us" means Omry Yadan, acting as Hydra project steward and as the recipient of the rights granted by this Agreement.

This contributor agreement ("Agreement") documents the rights granted by contributors to Us. To make this document effective, accept it electronically through the SAP-hosted CLA Assistant workflow linked from a Hydra pull request. CLA Assistant authenticates Your GitHub account and records Your acceptance of the displayed agreement version. This is a legally binding document, so please read it carefully before agreeing to it.

1. Definitions​

"You" means the individual who Submits a Contribution to Us.

"Agreement Version" means the version identifier stated in the Parties section.

"Coverage Date" means the date and time stated for the Agreement Version in the Parties section.

"Contribution" means any work of authorship that is Submitted by You to Us on or after the Coverage Date in which You own or assert ownership of the Copyright. A work first Submitted before the Coverage Date is not a Contribution under this Agreement Version unless You and We identify that work in a separate written record that expressly subjects it to this Agreement Version. If You do not own the Copyright in the entire work of authorship, You must follow Section 3(d).

"Copyright" means all rights protecting works of authorship owned or controlled by You, including copyright, moral and neighboring rights, as appropriate, for the full term of their existence including any extensions by You.

"Material" means the work of authorship which is made available by Us to third parties. The Material means the Hydra work of authorship to which the Contribution was Submitted. After You Submit the Contribution, it may be included in the Material.

"Submit" means intentionally providing a work of authorship to Us, either directly or by authorizing another person to provide it on Your behalf, through a source code repository managed by or on behalf of Us, another written channel that We expressly designate for accepting Contributions, or a written communication that clearly identifies the work as a Contribution. General discussion, issue reports, feature requests, and other communications are not Contributions merely because they are sent to Us.

"Submission Date" means the date on which You Submit a Contribution to Us.

"Effective Date" means the date You execute this Agreement. This Agreement covers every Contribution Submitted on or after the Coverage Date, including a Contribution Submitted after the Coverage Date but before the Effective Date. A work first Submitted before the Coverage Date remains governed by the agreement and license terms applicable to it when it was Submitted unless You and We expressly agree otherwise in writing.

2. Grant of Rights​

(a) You retain ownership of the Copyright in Your Contribution and have the same rights to use or license the Contribution which You would have had without entering into the Agreement.

(b) To the maximum extent permitted by the relevant law, You grant to Us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, irrevocable license under the Copyright covering the Contribution, with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees, to exercise all economic rights included in the Copyright with respect to the Contribution as part of the Material, including the rights to reproduce, modify, adapt and otherwise transform, display, perform, communicate and make available to the public, rent, and distribute the Contribution; provided that this license is conditioned upon compliance with Section 2.3.

(c) The licenses granted by this Agreement are royalty-free, and We will not provide regular statements of accounts concerning the Contribution or those licenses. To the maximum extent permitted by law, You knowingly and expressly waive Your right under Section 180.5 of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines to receive such statements from Us.

2.2 Patent License: Limited to Relevant Claims​

This patent license is limited to patent claims, including method, process, and apparatus claims, that You own, control, or have the right to grant, now or in the future. It applies only to the extent that exercising the rights granted below in either (i) the Contribution or (ii) the Contribution combined with the Material to which it was Submitted, including portions of that combination, as that Material exists on the Submission Date, would infringe those claims.

Within that limited scope, You grant to Us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, irrevocable patent license under those claims, with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers of sublicensees, to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and otherwise transfer the Contribution and the Contribution in combination with that Material, including portions of that combination. This license is conditioned upon compliance with Section 2.3.

2.3 Outbound Licensing: Original License Preserved​

If We include Your Contribution in a Material, We agree to license the Contribution under the terms of the license or licenses which We are using for the Material on the Submission Date. On that condition, and based on the grant of rights in Sections 2.1 and 2.2, We may also license the Contribution under any license, including copyleft, permissive, commercial, or proprietary licenses.

2.4 Moral Rights: Contribution Only​

This Section applies only to moral rights in the Contribution. If such rights apply, then, to the maximum extent permitted by law, You waive and agree not to assert them against Us or our successors in interest, or any of our licensees, either direct or indirect.

2.5 Our Rights​

You acknowledge that We are not obligated to use Your Contribution as part of the Material and may decide to include any Contribution We consider appropriate.

2.6 Reservation of Rights​

Any rights not expressly licensed under this section are expressly reserved by You.

3. Agreement​

You confirm that:

(a) You have the legal authority to enter into this Agreement.

(b) You own the Copyright covering the Contribution necessary to grant the copyright license in Section 2.1. You own, control, or have the right to grant the patent claims covering the Contribution necessary to grant the patent license in Section 2.2.

(c) The grant of rights under Section 2 does not violate any grant of rights or other obligation You have to a third party, including an employer. You have obtained every approval or waiver required by any employment, confidentiality, invention-assignment, academic, funding, or similar obligation for You to enter this Agreement and Submit the Contribution. You are at least eighteen years old.

(d) If a work You Submit contains material whose Copyright You do not own, You must identify that material conspicuously in the Submission and provide its source, its owner if known, and its applicable license. You must not Submit the material unless its applicable license or other authorization permits You to do so. Material identified under this paragraph is not licensed by You under this Agreement. We may require its removal or further evidence of authorization.

4. No Additional Warranties​

EXCEPT FOR THE EXPRESS WARRANTIES IN SECTION 3, THE CONTRIBUTION IS PROVIDED "AS IS". MORE PARTICULARLY, ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED BY YOU TO US. TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY SUCH WARRANTIES CANNOT BE DISCLAIMED, SUCH WARRANTY IS LIMITED IN DURATION TO THE MINIMUM PERIOD PERMITTED BY LAW.

5. Exclusion of Certain Damages​

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL YOU BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF DATA, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL AND EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY (CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) UPON WHICH THE CLAIM IS BASED.

6. Miscellaneous​

6.1 Governing Law​

This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of the Philippines excluding its conflicts of law provisions. Under certain circumstances, the governing law in this section might be superseded by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods ("UN Convention") and the parties intend to avoid the application of the UN Convention to this Agreement and, thus, exclude the application of the UN Convention in its entirety to this Agreement.

6.2 Entire Agreement and Agreement Versions​

This Agreement sets out the entire agreement between You and Us concerning the rights and obligations established by this Agreement for Contributions covered by this Agreement Version. It supersedes prior contributor agreements or understandings between You and Us concerning those Contributions only as expressly provided below and does not revoke or supersede any public license previously granted for a Contribution.

An Agreement Version supersedes another Agreement Version only if the Parties section identifies that other Agreement Version as superseded. If a Contribution is covered by more than one Agreement Version that has become effective between You and Us, the superseding Agreement Version governs the parties' rights and obligations concerning that Contribution from the superseding Agreement Version's Effective Date, regardless of execution order. Unless the superseding Agreement Version expressly states otherwise, supersession does not revoke or narrow any license or other right already granted to Us under an earlier Agreement Version, invalidate any sublicense, or affect any act completed in compliance with an earlier Agreement Version before that Effective Date.

6.3 Assignment​

If You or We assign the rights or obligations received through this Agreement to a third party, as a condition of the assignment, that third party must agree in writing to abide by all the rights and obligations in the Agreement.

6.4 No Implied Waiver​

The failure of either party to require performance by the other party of any provision of this Agreement in one situation shall not affect the right of a party to require such performance at any time in the future. A waiver of performance under a provision in one situation shall not be considered a waiver of the performance of the provision in the future or a waiver of the provision in its entirety.

6.5 Severability​

If any provision of this Agreement is found void and unenforceable, such provision will be replaced to the extent possible with a provision that comes closest to the meaning of the original provision and which is enforceable. The terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose of this Agreement or any limited remedy to the maximum extent possible under law.

Parties​

Agreement record:

  • Agreement version: 1.0
  • Coverage Date: 2026-08-30T12:04:43Z
  • Supersedes Agreement Version(s): None

You:

  • Full legal name: recorded by CLA Assistant
  • GitHub identity: recorded by CLA Assistant
  • Email address: recorded by CLA Assistant
  • Confirmation that You are at least eighteen: recorded by CLA Assistant
  • Agreement version and acceptance time: recorded by CLA Assistant

Us:

  • Name: Omry Yadan
  • Title: Hydra project steward
  • Contact: cla@hydra.cc

Adapted from the Harmony Individual Contributor License Agreement, Version 1.0, July 4, 2011, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. The copyright-license form and standard Option Five were selected, project scope was narrowed to Hydra, Omry Yadan was identified as the recipient, and prospective coverage, versioning, signing, employment-obligation, and third-party-material provisions were added.