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- You keep ownership of everything you contribute. You are not giving up your copyright.
- You give permission for your contribution to be used in both the MIT-licensed source code and official ShackDesk builds/services.
- This is standard practice for projects that offer open source code alongside official builds, personalization, and support. Without this agreement, the project could not consistently offer those official ShackDesk services.
- Submitting a pull request on GitHub means you agree to these terms.
By submitting a pull request or any other contribution to PortPane by ShackDesk, you agree to the following terms:
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Copyright License. You grant Mark McDow (N4TEK) and My Computer Guru LLC a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your contributions and such derivative works.
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You represent that each of your contributions is your original creation or that you have sufficient rights to submit it.
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You represent that your contributions do not violate any third-party license, patent, copyright, or other intellectual property right.
- You acknowledge that source code in this repository is distributed under MIT, and that ShackDesk may offer official builds, optional registration/ personalization, and support under separate commercial terms. You agree your contributions may be used in both contexts at the maintainer's discretion.
- You are not expected to provide support for your contributions beyond what you choose to offer.
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