Contributor Agreement

This Agreement governs your rights and the rights of GFUSA with respect to any Contribution made by you to GFUSA. BY CLICKING "I AGREE" BELOW, OR BY SUBMITTING ANY CONTRIBUTION, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. Please read this document carefully before accepting these terms.

• For purposes of this Agreement, "Contribution" means the specific computer code you are contributing, including binary and source code, any localizations thereof, and any accompanying documentation or files.
• You hereby assign to GFUSA your copyright ownership and all other right, title and interest you have in and to the Contributions under the laws of the United States and all foreign jurisdictions, for the full term of the copyright, including all moral rights (or a waiver thereof) and any extensions or renewals. GFUSA will have the exclusive right to claim copyrights and obtain copyright registrations for the Contributions in its name alone. You agree to execute any documents or perform any actions which GFUSA may request to perfect this assignment or otherwise implement this Agreement. To the extent this assignment is not effective, you grant GFUSA a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully paid-up right to use, modify, reproduce, distribute and otherwise exploit the Contributions for any purpose.
• You represent that you alone created the Contributions, and that you are legally entitled to assign the Contributions to GFUSA. If a third party, such as your employer, may have rights to intellectual property you create, you agree that such third party has (1) no such rights in the Contributions; (2) granted permission for this assignment; or (3) waived such rights in the Contributions.
• Any Contribution that contains any of the items listed below must not be submitted until GFUSA staff has been notified and has approved such Contribution in writing:
  • Cryptographic capabilities or features; or
  • Calls to cryptographic features; or
  • User interface elements which provide context relating to cryptography; or
  • Code which may, under casual inspection, appear to be cryptographic.
• GFUSA hereby grants to you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and fully paid-up right to use, modify and distribute the Contributions for any purpose.
• The terms and provisions of this Agreement constitute the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the transactions and matters contemplated hereby and supersede all previous communications, representations, agreements and understandings relating to this subject matter.
• No representations, inducements, promises or agreements, whether oral or otherwise, between the parties not contained in this Agreement shall be of any force or effect. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, THERE ARE AND WILL BE NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES AND NO IMPLIED WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
• No agreement or understanding extending this Agreement or varying its terms (including any inconsistent terms in any purchase order, acknowledgment or similar form) shall be binding upon either party unless it is in a writing specifically referring to this Agreement and signed by a duly authorized representative of the applicable party.
• This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of New York, USA without reference to its provisions concerning conflicts of laws.