Joint Copyright Assignment by Ongoing Contributor
To International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM")
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Ongoing Contributor (hereafter "You") agree that the following terms and conditions shall apply to all Ongoing Contributions made after execution of this Agreement.  A Contribution is created by one or more "Authors". 
A "Contribution" is defined as all source code and related material delivered by You to IBM for incorporation into the Bookmarks Portlet Open Source Project and accepted by IBM. 
"Patent Rights" mean patent claims assertable by You which are necessarily infringed by the use or distribution of the Contribution alone or when combined with the Bookmarks Portlet project code.
Authors. You, the Contributor, will provide IBM with one or more Addendum to Joint Copyright Assignment by Ongoing Contributor: Authors forms, each listing one or more Authors. You agree to ensure that all of these Authors agree to adhere to the terms of this agreement. You may obtain Contributions from these Authors, and such Contributions may be aggregated into a Contribution that You contribute. You may not obtain and aggregate Contributions from anyone who was not added as an Author. IBM will grant one or more of these Authors commit privilege. Any code incorporated into the Bookmarks Portlet source code by one of your committer Authors will be counted as part of Your Contribution under this Agreement.

Third-party material. You, the Contributor, will notify IBM of third party material or code to be used in a Contribution before such material is included in a Contribution; that is, before such material is committed to the Bookmarks Portlet source code.

Rights affecting the use of a Contribution. You, the Contributor, will notify IBM if any of Your Authors know of any rights – such as patents or contract restrictions – related to the Contribution that would affect its use and distribution by others, before such material is included in the Contribution; according to Your Authors actual knowledge on the date of a Contribution, and without further inquiry or any patent search.
Copyright Assignment.  For good and valuable consideration, receipt of which You acknowledge, You hereby assign to IBM joint copyright ownership in the Contribution.  You retain joint ownership in the Contribution without restriction.  IBM and You will jointly own the Contribution and each shall be free to use, perform, execute, copy, make derivative works of, distribute, sell, license and otherwise transfer the Contribution and derivative works thereof at each party's sole discretion, without any obligation of or accounting to the other.  You agree that this assignment may be submitted by IBM to register a copyright in the Contribution.

Representations and Warrantees.  You represent the following with respect to each Contribution:
1) that You own, and have obtained sufficient rights in the Contribution to grant all rights necessary for IBM to include the Contribution in an Bookmarks Portlet package and/or related materials, including but not limited to the right to use, perform, execute, copy, make derivative works of, distribute, sell, license and otherwise the Contribution; and
2) that you will provide IBM with a brief description of each Contribution, via a comment for each commit to the Bookmarks Portlet source code repository; and
3) that You will provide IBM with a list of new, additional Authors of any Contribution to Bookmarks Portlet, before committing code from them to the Bookmarks Portlet source code repository, via the Addendum to Joint Copyright Assignment by Ongoing Contributor: Authors, which will be incorporated in its entirety into this agreement. (Only new, additional Authors need to be listed.)

Covenant Not to Sue.  You agree not to initiate suit asserting any Patent Rights in the Contribution against those who use or distribute the Contribution or the Contribution in combination with the Bookmarks Portlet project code to which it was contributed:  (1) only if such use or distribution of the Contribution or the combination is for the purpose of using Bookmarks Portlet; and (2) with respect to combinations, only if, at the time the Contribution is submitted by You, the addition of the Contribution causes such combination to be covered by the Patent Rights.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this agreement not to initiate suit by You shall not apply to any party who asserts its own patent rights against You.

Governing Law.  This Copyright Assignment shall be governed by the intellectual property laws of the United States of America and the substantive laws of the state of New York applicable to agreements fully executed and performed within the state of New York.

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