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Legal Overview

We appreciate all the help that we can get and are always open to cooperating with contributors. However, it is our responsibility towards both all the contributors as well as the users of this library to clarify the licensing and protect both sides' rights and interests.

Developers who wish to contribute to this project will need to sign our Contributor License Agreement (either in a PDF, or by printing and signing it and sending it over regular mail). Contributors should only submit their own work product (either as an individual, or as a company).

The work on this project is based on martint/s3fs's and Upplication/Amazon-S3-FileSystem-NIO2's projects. Upplication/Amazon-S3-FileSystem-NIO2 is a fork of martint/s3fs. martint/s3fs's project is under the Apache 2.0 license. Upplication/Amazon-S3-FileSystem-NIO2's project is under the MIT license.

As a further clarification:

  • The code that we've borrowed, which belongs to each of the above-mentioned projects will retain its original license.
  • New code will be under the Apache 2.0 license.
  • Contributors agree to have their code/fixes available under both the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses.
  • Contributors representing a company or other organization (collectively referred to below as "organization"), should each sign a separate CLA and clarify that they're representing the organization. If this is not possible, then the lead contributors from the organization should sign the ICLA and clarify that they are making this contribution on behalf of the organization and that it may include works of other authors in their organization.

License Details

Below, you can find our license texts:

Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

To accept, please:

  • Fill in all the mandatory fields

  • Full name (mandatory)

  • Company/Organization/University (optional -- please, only fill this, if you're contributing work on behalf of a company, organization, or are studying)
  • E-mail (mandatory)
  • Mailing address (mandatory)
  • Country (mandatory)
  • Telephone (optional)

  • Signature (mandatory -- please, use an actual signature)

  • Print, sign and scan the Individual Contributor's License Agreement (ICLA), or, alternatively, fill in the ICLA PDF file and mail it back to carlspring@gmail.com.

Notes: Please, note that none of this information is shared with third-parties and is only required due to the legal agreement which you will be entering when contributing your code to the project. We require this minimal amount of information in order to be able to identify you, as we're not keeping record, or more sensitive information, such as passport/ID details. We will not send you any spam, or share your details with third parties.