diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index c67e8d115..1d1736260 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -2,44 +2,8 @@ We are thrilled you are interested in contributing to this repository. Your help may be essential to the project's success and we want you in! -Superalgos is a collective project, currently at a very early stage. Although this repository is not open source software yet, we do welcome contributions from the community. +Superalgos is a collective project, currently at a very early stage. We not only welcome contributions but may even choose to incentivize relevant contributions via the project's native crypto token. -Contributions are deemed _voluntary work_. There might be incentives in place for certain kinds of contributions. Contact us for more information in this regard. +Please read the [Join the Dev Team]( https://superalgos.org/developers-join-dev-team.shtml) page in our website to learn more about how you may become a relevant member of the Community and even make a living out of contributing code to the project. -In any case, contributors agree to provide an express grant of patent rights for their contributions. Submitting Pull Requests to this repository represents an express agreement with the terms of our Balanced Contributor Intellectual Property Agreement. This agreement is a direct implementation of GitHub's [Balanced Employee Intellectual Property Agreement 1.0.1](https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement/blob/master/Balanced_Employee_IP_Agreement.md). - -# Balanced Contributor Intellectual Property Agreement 1.0.1 - -This BALANCED CONTRIBUTOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AGREEMENT is between person or team submitting Pull Requests to this repository and Superalgos.org ("Project"). - -**What is this?** This is the Project's Intellectual Property Agreement ("Agreement"). If you've worked in the technology space before, there's a good chance that you've run across one or more of these in the past. This document is the official, entire and exclusive agreement on what intellectual property ("IP") is yours, and what belongs to the Project. - -**Why is this?** The Project needs to be clear on what IP it owns and has rights to. Its customers, contributors, and investors depend on the Project having the legal rights to the products and services it is providing so that the Project can continue operating and doing business. - -The Project also believes that it's important to be clear on what it doesn't own. The Project doesn't want you looking over your shoulder every time you work on something personal or worrying that the Project will someday seize your open source non-lethal mousetrap simulation software. In other words, the Project isn't interested in appropriating your personal projects. - -**Read this.** Please read this document and be sure you understand it before you submit any Pull Requests. Due to legal risk and corporate obligations, the Project cannot, by and large, negotiate its terms. If you feel you have a particular circumstance that keeps you from signing, please let the Project's legal department ("Legal") know. 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