Per the Collaboration and Partnership Memorandum of Understanding of the Hydra Originating Steering Group Members, one of the foundational tenets of the Hydra Project, now the Samvera Community, is to foster a rich, sustainable open source code base.
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All code contributors must have an Individual Contributor License Agreement (iCLA) on file with the Samvera Community Steering Group, a process which is initiated by completing an iCLA and emailing it to legal@samvera.org. If the contributor works for an institution which has rights over materials that they contribute , the institution must also have a Corporate Contributor License Agreement (cCLA) on file; when no such cCLA exists the potential contributor will be asked to initiate the process of obtaining one and be offered any necessary support from Samvera.
Samvera also seeks to have clarity around the Intellectual Property of non-code contributions to the Community. Its CLAs cover these non-code contributions as well as code contributions and CLAs will be required from individuals and institutions offering non-code materials unless these are produced under the auspices of a Samvera Working Group; by joining such a Group members accept that its outputs can be distributed. At the present time the Samvera Steering Group have determined that such materials should be sub-licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License as permitted under paragraph 2 of the CLA.
Note: These CLA forms refer to Hydra or any "successor in interest" and are therefore vaild under Hydra's new name "Samvera". We shall replace these forms with reworded versions shortly.
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