SugarCRM Contributor Agreement

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the SugarCRM product development community. SugarCRM is very interested in receiving your contribution to SugarCRM product ("SugarCRM Product"). However, in order to participate, we need to confirm how the rights in your contribution ("Your Contribution") will be allocated. Following the practices of the Free Software Foundation, SugarCRM requests that you assign the copyright in Your Contribution to SugarCRM (with a license back to you to use it in any way that you please). SugarCRM requires that you have a Contributor Agreement on file prior to using Your Contribution. This Contributor Agreement is to make clear the rights between the parties.

If you have not sent us a signed Contributor Agreement, please review and sign the Contributor Agreement and send it by facsimile to SugarCRM at + 1-408-873-2872, or send an original by regular mail to SugarCRM, Attn: License Coordinator, 10050 North Wolfe Road, Suite 130, Cupertino, CA 95014 . Please read this Contributor Agreement carefully before signing and keep the original for your records.

In consideration for the potential acceptance of Your Contribution in the SugarCRM Product you agree to the following terms and conditions:

1. The term "Your Contributions" means all of your past, present and future contributions of object code, source code and documentation to SugarCRM, however submitted to the SugarCRM, excluding any submissions that are conspicuously marked or otherwise designated in writing by You as "Not a Contribution."

2. You assign all right, title and interest worldwide in copyrights and related moral rights to SugarCRM. SugarCRM shall be able to register this assignment. However, at the same time, SugarCRM grants to You a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty free, transferable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, distribute (internally and externally, in object code and, if included in Your Contributions, source code form), use, publicly perform and publicly display Your Contributions, with the right to sublicense all of these rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees. The intention of the parties is that this license will be as broad as possible and to provide you with rights as similar as possible to the rights of the owner of the copyright. This license is limited to Your Contributions and does not provide any rights to the SugarCRM Products. You also grant to SugarCRM a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty free, transferable license under any patents owned by You now or in the future to make, use, sell, offer for sale and import in Your Contributions, with the right to sublicense all of these rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees.

3. You represent that you are legally entitled to assign the rights and grant the license set forth in paragraph 2. If your employer(s) have rights to intellectual property that you create, you represent that you have received permission to make Your Contributions on behalf of that employer, or that your employer has waived such rights for Your Contributions to SugarCRM.

4. You represent that, except as disclosed in your Contribution submission(s), each of your Contributions is your original creation. You represent that your Contribution submission(s) include complete details of any license or other restriction (including, but not limited to, related patents and trademarks) associated with any part of your Contribution(s) (including a copy of any applicable license agreement). You agree to notify SugarCRM of any facts or circumstances of which you become aware that would make Your representations in this Agreement inaccurate in any respect.

5. You provided Your Contributions are provided AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND DISCLAIMS THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Similarly, the license back to Your Contributions are provided AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND DISCLAIMS THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT

6. IN NO EVENT SHALL EITHER PARTY BE LIABLE TO ANYONE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF YOUR CONTRIBUTION, EVEN IF THE USER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

7. IN NO EVENT WILL YOU OR SUGARCRM HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY.

8. This Contributor Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California as such laws are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within California between California residents and by the laws of the United States. You agree that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980) is hereby excluded in its entirety from application to this Contributor Agreement. In the event of invalidity of any provision of this agreement, the parties agree that such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this agreement. This is the entire agreement between you and SugarCRM which supersedes any prior agreement, whether written or oral, relating to the subject matter of this agreement and may be amended only by a writing signed by both parties.