Developer Agreement

Do not be scared by the following agreement, it's just to clarify the obvious and put it on paper.

Development and Documentation Goals

You probably already learned that there is no such thing as a "free lunch" so we tell you right away what we expect in return for providing your with sponsored hardware. In most cases this simply means that we want you to publish a project description of what you plan to do in your project on the Elphel wiki and to blog about your projects progress to provide us with regular progress updates on the Elphel Development Blog. Another requirement is that you release ALL your work related to the project (code, schematics, documentation etc.) to the public under the GNU GPL (for software) and CERN OHL (for hardware), see Contribution License.

Provided Hardware

Elphel/Apertus will provide you with the hardware required for your planned developments free of charge. You only have to pay the shipping cost. Import duties or custom fees as well as potential taxes might apply for certain countries and have to be paid by you upon receiving the goods.

Time Schedule

In most cases we will lend the hardware to you for a certain amount of time that is initially agreed on. After your project is completed we ask you to return the equipment to us or a different developer.

In rare cases:

• your project is going horribly wrong
• you misinformed us in your application
• you repeatedly fail to post any progress reports or developments as initially agreed on

Contribution License

You agree that all contributed source code is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, all contributed documentation under the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.3 or later and all hardware under the Cern OHL 1.1 or later.