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- get voted out by a majority of all current Partners, or
- notify the Samvera Steering Group that you wish to withdraw from your partner agreement
Partners sign a formal one page agreement agreeing to support Letter of Agreement (LoA) in support of the formal, legal Memorandum legal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Steering Group in April 2012, and each Partner is asked at the time of joining the group to write a brief letter of intent indicating why they want to become a Samvera Partner and what they intend to contribute to the Community. (Note that we post these letters publicly in the wiki.) Partners are also strongly required to file a corporate Contributor License Agreement (see Samvera Community Intellectual Property Licensing and Ownership page) to ensure that the Community can accept code and other intellectual contributions from the Partner institution. A composite document comprising the 2012 MoU, amendments made to it in 2018 to reflect the name change from Hydra to Samvera, a version of the MoU showing the effect of these amendments, and a blank Letter of Agreement can be found here.
Roles and responsibilities
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