Thank you for Your interest in contributing to the Code for Life project (the “Project”) managed by Ocado Technology (“Ocado”, “We” or “Us”). Please read the following terms carefully. By contributing to the Code for Life project on this website You are agreeing to the following terms.
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1. “Agreement” means this contributor agreement.
1.2. “You” or “Your” means the individual who Submits a Contribution to Us.
1.3. “Code” means the computer software code, whether in human-readable or machine-executable form, that is Submitted by You.
1.4. “Contribution” means the Code and any other work of authorship that is Submitted by You to Us in which You own or assert ownership of the copyright.
1.5. “Submit” means the act of uploading, submitting, transmitting, or distributing code or other content to the Project.
2. GRANT OF RIGHTS
2.1. Copyright License
2.1.1. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, You grant to Us, and those who receive the Contribution directly or indirectly from Us, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, modify, display, prepare derivative works of, perform, distribute and commercialise the Contribution, with the right to sub-license, and permit sub-licensees to sub-license, the same.
2.1.2. Each party reserves all rights not expressly granted in this Agreement. No additional licenses or rights are granted by implication, exhaustion, estoppel or otherwise.
2.1.3. You retain ownership of the copyright in Your Contribution. This Agreement does not affect any rights You have to use or license Your Contribution as You see fit.
2.2. Patent License
You grant us, and those who receive the Contribution directly or indirectly from Us, a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, irrevocable patent license under Your patent claims (but only to the extent that the exercise of the licensed rights infringes such patent claims) to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise transfer or dispose of the Contribution, alone or with the Project, with the right to sub-license, and permit sub-licensees to sub-license, the same.
2.3. No right to use trademarks
2.3.1. Neither this Agreement nor your Contribution to the Project grants You any right, title or interest in any “Ocado” logos, trade names or the trademark “Ocado” or any other trademarks or domain names owned by Ocado Innovation Limited or the Ocado group of companies or any other distinctive brand features of “Ocado” as may be secured from time to time.
2.3.2. You must not distribute any modification of this Project using the trademark “Ocado”.
3. USE IN THE PROJECT
3.1. You acknowledge that We are not obliged to use Your Contribution as part of the Project. We may decide to include any Contribution (in whole or in part) that We consider appropriate in Our sole discretion.
3.2. You acknowledge and agree that Contributions to the Project may be maintained in perpetuity and publicly disclosed. This may include Your name and other information that You Submit.
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
4.1. Unless You are a current employee or contractor of Ocado or any member of its group, You must not claim any affiliation or association with Ocado or its employees, other than as set out in this clause 4. E.g. making a Contribution to the Project does not grant You the right to claim that You have worked for or are employed by Ocado or any member of its group.
4.2. If You wish to disclose publicly that You have contributed to the Project (e.g. on a website, on social media, in a curriculum vitae, in interviews etc.) You agree that You will not do this unless You have received confirmation from Us that we have used Your Contribution in the Project.
5. REPRESENTATIONS
5.1. You confirm that:
5.1.1. You have the legal authority to enter into this Agreement.
5.1.2. You are legally entitled to grant the licences in clause 2 and the grant of these licences will not infringe any third party rights.
5.1.3. If You are under eighteen years of age, You have Your parent(s)’ or guardian(s)’ permission to Contribute to the Project and enter into this Agreement.
5.1.4. If Your Contribution is made in the course of Your employment (or any other working relationship) or Your employer (or anyone else for whom you are working) has intellectual property rights in Your Contribution, You have secured permission from Your employer to make the Contribution on the terms of this Agreement.
5.1.5. Each of Your Contributions is entirely Your original work.
5.1.6. You will not Submit Contributions that contain Code or other material, the use of which is restricted by a licence or by some other means, which:
5.1.6.1. is incompatible with the licence grants in clause 2 of this Agreement; or
5.1.6.2. would result in Us being unable to freely use that part of Your Contribution in the Project and/or onward license it under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3, 19 November 2007.
5.2. Unless required by applicable law and except for the warranties in clause 5.1, Your Contribution is provided “as is” and without express or implied warranty of any kind, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
6. MISCELLANEOUS
6.1. This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and the parties submit to the irrevocable jurisdiction of the English courts.
6.2. This Agreement is the entire agreement between You and Us, and supersedes any and all prior agreements, understandings or communications, written or oral, between You and Us relating to its subject matter. This Agreement may be assigned by Us.
To contribute to Code for Life you must sign your email address below, affirming that you have read and agree to the contribution terms stated above. All your future contributions must be signed with the same email address.
To sign, you must:
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Set up your git identity on your computer.
git config --global user.name "John Doe" git config --global user.email [email protected]
Set
user.nameto be anything you like.Set
user.emailto be an email address that you own. Note that:- This email address will be forever publicly visible! If you wish to keep your personal email address private, then we recommend you create a new email address for the sole purpose of making contributions. If you have a GitHub account, you can add the new email address to it.
- You cannot use a private/noreply email address. If you have a GitHub account, this is enabled by default and can be turned off at Settings > Emails > Keep my email addresses private.
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Fork this repo. See how to do this on GitHub. Note that you only need to fork the main branch.
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On the main branch of your forked repo, write your email address on a new line at the bottom of this file. Note that you must not make any other edits.
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Commit your changes.
git commit -m "user.email"Replace
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Push your changes.
git push
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Create a pull request from the main branch of your forked repo to the main branch of this repo. See how to do this on GitHub.
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To affirm that you own the email address you provided, an email will be sent to the email address after your pull request has been reviewed and approved by a member of our team. The email will contain a link to the pull request that added the email address as a contributor. You must forward the email to [email protected] from the same email address and state:
I confirm that I created this pull request and I agree to being a contributor to the Code for Life project.
Your email address is now approved to make contributions! 🥳
If you have any trouble with the above process, please reach out to [email protected].
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