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Expand Up @@ -88,8 +88,24 @@ that you wrote the contribution or otherwise have the right to submit it
under the MIT License. Signing off your commits (`git commit -s`) is
appreciated but the certification applies to every contribution regardless.

A Contributor License Agreement (CLA) is under consideration but has not
been adopted; today the DCO plus the MIT License govern contributions.
## Contributor License Agreement

A Contributor License Agreement is published:
[`openadapt-flow/CLA.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/openadapt-flow/blob/main/CLA.md)
for individuals, and
[`openadapt-flow/CCLA.md`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/openadapt-flow/blob/main/CCLA.md)
for companies whose employees contribute on company time. It gives MLDSAI Inc.
an explicit copyright and patent license, which the MIT License alone doesn't
provide, and it keeps the option of relicensing the combined work later.

It is not enforced here yet. You don't agree to it by opening a pull request,
and nothing is implied. You agree when you sign, either through the automated
CLA check once that check is turned on for this repository, or by email. Until
then the DCO and the MIT License are what govern your contribution.

The open-core boundary above is the reason this matters. Your contribution may
end up in the proprietary products MLDSAI Inc. builds on this code. The MIT
License already permits that. The CLA says it out loud so nobody is surprised.

## Questions?

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