# Contributor License Agreement

Patchwork OS is maintained by **Oolab Labs** and distributed under the MIT License. To keep the project legally clean and preserve future licensing optionality (including potential dual-licensing for commercial/embed partners), every contributor must agree to this lightweight CLA before their patch is merged.

## What you agree to

By submitting a contribution (pull request, patch, commit, issue-attached code, or any other form) to this repository, you certify that:

1. **DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin 1.1)** — the contribution is your original work, or you have the right to submit it under the project's open-source license. Full text: https://developercertificate.org/
2. **Copyright license to Oolab Labs** — you grant Oolab Labs a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, sublicense, and relicense your contribution, including under licenses other than MIT (e.g. a commercial license for embed partners). You retain your copyright.
3. **Patent grant** — you grant the same recipients a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free patent license for any patent claims necessarily infringed by your contribution.
4. **You have the right to do this** — if your employer has rights to your work, you have their permission, or the contribution is outside the scope of your employment.

## How to agree

Add a `Signed-off-by:` trailer to each commit (`git commit -s`). That line is your agreement. One-time signers may instead comment `I agree to the CLA` on their first PR; maintainers will record it.

Questions: open an issue or email legal@oolab.dev.
