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# Contributors Agreement

This Contributors Agreement is designed to ensure that you are protected and that your patches can be utilized by everyone. All patches submitted to Embedthis and subsequently included in Appweb are governed by this agreement.

We have based this agreement on the MIT Open Source License which is approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). It is simple and clear and allows the use of your contributions in Appweb under both the GPL and commercial licenses. You keep the copyright for your modifications, but everyone gets to enjoy the benefit of your contribution. We have made two changes to the MIT license for our use:

- We have removed the copyright reference to MIT.

- We have added a statement that submitted code will only be used in commercial products if it is also made available in the open source Appweb versions.

We cannot accept patches that are not licensed under the Contributors Agreement. NOTE: We cannot accept patches under a GPL license as this prevents us providing them to some commercial customers.

## Contributors Agreement

The contributor agrees that:

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

> The contributed Software may only be included in commercial products if the Software is also made publicly available in an open source Appweb release.

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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