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"You" (or "Your") means the copyright owner or legal entity authorized by the copyright owner that is making this Agreement. For legal entities, the entity making a contribution and all other entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with that entity are considered to be a single contributor.

"Contribution" means any original work of authorship, including any modifications or additions to an existing work, that is intentionally submitted by You to SynthOrg for inclusion in, or documentation of, the project. For the purposes of this definition, "submitted" means any form of electronic, verbal, or written communication sent to the project maintainers, including but not limited to communication on electronic mailing lists, source code control systems, and issue tracking systems that are managed by, or on behalf of, the project for the purpose of discussing and improving the work.

"Project" means the SynthOrg software project, including all repositories under the SynthOrg organization.

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to the Project maintainers and to recipients of software distributed by the Project 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.

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As a condition on the grant of rights in Sections 2 and 3, the Project maintainers agree to license the Contribution under the terms of the license(s) that the Project uses for the work at the time of the Contribution (including any additional licensing arrangements). The Project may offer the Contribution under additional license terms, including commercial licenses, to enable dual-licensing.

You represent that:

(a) You are legally entitled to grant the above licenses. If your employer(s) has rights to intellectual property that you create that includes your Contributions, 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 to the Project.

(b) Each of Your Contributions is Your original creation. You represent that Your Contribution submissions include complete details of any third-party license or other restriction (including, but not limited to, related patents and trademarks) of which you are personally aware and which are associated with any part of Your Contributions.

(c) You are not expected to provide support for Your Contributions, except to the extent You desire to provide support. You may provide support for free, for a fee, or not at all.

You retain ownership of the copyright in Your Contributions. This Agreement does not transfer ownership; it only grants the licenses described above. You are free to use Your Contributions in any way you see fit, including licensing them to others under any terms you choose.

The Project maintainers will make reasonable efforts to include attribution to contributors, such as maintaining a contributors list or preserving authorship information in version control history.

You acknowledge that the Project maintainers are under no obligation to accept or include Your Contributions in the Project.

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