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Contributor License Agreement

Version 1.0 Last updated: March 24, 2026

Thank you for your interest in contributing to open source projects maintained by Mataki Labs LLC (“Mataki”). This Contributor License Agreement (“CLA”) defines the terms under which contributions are made.

By submitting a contribution to any Mataki open source repository, you accept and agree to the following terms.

1. Definitions

“Contribution” means any original work of authorship, including any modifications or additions to existing work, that you intentionally submit to a Mataki project for inclusion in the project. “Submit” means any form of electronic communication sent to Mataki, including pull requests, issues with attached code, patches, and commits pushed to Mataki-hosted repositories.

“You” (or “Your”) means the individual or legal entity making the Contribution. If the Contribution is made on behalf of a company or other legal entity, “You” includes that entity.

You hereby grant to Mataki and to recipients of software distributed by Mataki a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works.

3. Grant of Patent License

You hereby grant to Mataki and to recipients of software distributed by Mataki a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer Your Contributions, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by You that are necessarily infringed by Your Contribution alone or by combination of Your Contribution with the project to which it was submitted.

4. Representations

You represent that:

(a) You are legally entitled to grant the above licenses. If your employer has rights to intellectual property that you create, you represent that you have received permission to make Contributions on behalf of that employer, or that your employer has waived such rights for your Contributions.

(b) Each of Your Contributions is Your original creation. If any part of Your Contribution includes materials from a third party, you represent that you have disclosed this and that the third-party materials are available under a compatible open source license.

(c) Your Contribution does not violate any law or infringe any third party’s intellectual property rights.

5. No Obligation

You understand that the decision to include Your Contribution in any project is entirely at Mataki’s discretion. Mataki is under no obligation to use or include Your Contribution.

6. Support

You are not expected to provide support for Your Contributions, except to the extent you desire to do so. Support, if provided, is on a voluntary basis and without warranty.

7. Notification

You agree to notify Mataki if you become aware of any facts or circumstances that would make your representations in this CLA inaccurate.

8. Dual Licensing

You understand and agree that Mataki may distribute its projects under multiple licenses, including proprietary licenses, and that Your Contributions may be included in versions of the project distributed under any such license. This is a standard practice for “open core” projects and is the reason a CLA (rather than a DCO) is required.


How to Sign

Automated CLA Signing

All Mataki open source repositories use CLA Assistant to manage CLA signatures. When you open your first pull request to a Mataki repository:

  1. CLA Assistant will automatically check if you have signed the CLA
  2. If you haven’t signed, it will comment on your PR with a link
  3. Click the link and sign by commenting “I have read the CLA Document and I hereby sign the CLA” on the PR
  4. Your signature is recorded and all future PRs are automatically approved

Corporate Contributors

If you are making Contributions on behalf of your employer, an authorized representative of your company should sign the CLA via the same mechanism. If your company requires a separate corporate CLA, contact legal@mataki.dev.


Questions

Contact legal@mataki.dev or open an issue in the relevant repository.