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+PACT Contributor Agreement
+
+PLEASE READ AND SIGN AS CONTRIBUTIONS WILL NOT BE MERGED UNTIL THIS FORM IS RECEIVED
+
+This PACT Contributor Agreement (“PCA”) applies to any contribution that you make to any 
+product or project managed by us (the “project”), and sets out the intellectual property 
+rights you grant to us in the contributed materials. The term “us” shall mean the Regents
+of the University of Minnesota. The term “you” shall mean the person or entity identified
+below. If you agree to be bound by these terms, fill in the information requested below
+and sign the PCA where indicated below. Read this agreement carefully before signing.
+These terms and conditions constitute a binding legal agreement.
+
+1. The term 'contribution' or ‘contributed materials’ means any source code, object code, 
+patch, tool, sample, graphic, specification, manual, documentation, or any other material 
+posted or submitted by you to the project.
+
+2. With respect to any worldwide copyrights, or copyright applications and registrations, 
+in your contribution:
+• you hereby assign to us joint ownership, and to the extent that such assignment is or 
+becomes invalid, ineffective or unenforceable, you hereby grant to us a perpetual, 
+irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free, unrestricted license to
+exercise all rights under those copyrights. This includes, at our option, the right to 
+sublicense these same rights to third parties through multiple levels of sublicensees or
+other licensing arrangements;
+• you agree that each of us can do all things in relation to your contribution as if each
+of us were the sole owners, and if one of us makes a derivative work of your contribution,
+the one who makes the derivative work (or has it made) will be the sole owner of that
+derivative work;
+• you agree that you will not assert any moral rights in your contribution against us, 
+our licensees or transferees;
+• you agree that we may register a copyright in your contribution and exercise all ownership
+rights associated with it; and
+• you agree that neither of us has any duty to consult with, obtain the consent of, 
+pay or render an accounting to the other for any use or distribution of your contribution.
+
+3. With respect to any patents you own, or that you can license without payment to any 
+third party, you hereby grant to us a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide,
+no-charge, royalty-free license to:
+• make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise transfer your 
+contribution in whole or in part, alone or in combination with or included in any product, 
+work or materials arising out of the project to which your contribution was submitted, and
+• at our option, to sublicense these same rights to third parties through multiple levels of
+sublicensees or other licensing arrangements.
+
+4. Except as set out above, you keep all right, title, and interest in your contribution. 
+The rights that you grant to us under these terms are effective on the date you first submitted
+a contribution to us, even if your submission took place before the date you sign these terms.
+Any contribution we make available under any license will also be made available under a suitable
+FSF (Free Software Foundation) or OSI (Open Source Initiative) approved license.
+
+5. You covenant, represent, warrant and agree that:
+• each contribution that you submit is and shall be an original work of authorship and you
+can legally grant the rights set out in this PCA;
+• to the best of your knowledge, each contribution will not violate any third party's copyrights,
+trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property rights; and
+• each contribution shall be in compliance with U.S. export control laws and other applicable
+export and import laws.
+
+You agree to notify us if you become aware of any circumstance which would make any of the
+foregoing representations inaccurate in any respect. We may publicly disclose your participation
+in the project, including the fact that you have signed the PCA.
+
+6. This PCA is governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota and applicable U.S. Federal law.
+Any choice of law rules will not apply.
+
+7. Please place an “x” on one of the applicable statement below. Please do NOT mark both statements:
+____ I am signing on behalf of myself as an individual and no other person or entity, 
+including my employer, has or will have rights with respect my contributions.
+____ I am signing on behalf of my employer or a legal entity and I have the actual 
+authority to contractually bind that entity.
+
+Name*:
+Company's Name (if applicable):
+Title or Role (if applicable):
+Mailing Address*:
+Telephone, Fax and Email*:
+Signature*:
+Date*:
+Project Name*: PACT: Protein Analysis and Classifier Toolkit
+GitHub Username:
+
+Return a copy of this form to the projects email at: jrk [at] umn.edu