Merge pull request #3695 from ktsaou/cla

netdata contributors license agreement

CONTRIBUTORS.md

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+<!--
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0+
+-->
+
+# netdata contributors license agreement
+
+**Thank you for contributing to netdata!**
+
+This agreement is part of the legal framework of the open-source ecosystem
+that adds some red tape, but protects both the contributor and the project.
+
+To understand why this is needed, please read [a well-written chapter from
+Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software on CLAs](http://producingoss.com/en/copyright-assignment.html).
+
+By signing this agreement, you do not change your rights to use your own
+contributions for any other purpose.
+
+## copyright license
+
+The Contributor (*you*) grants netdata Inc. a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive,
+no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce,
+prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense,
+and distribute his contributions and such derivative works.
+
+## copyright transfer
+
+The Contributor (*you*) hereby assigns netdata Inc. copyright in his
+contributions, to be licensed under the same terms as the rest of the code.
+
+> *Note: this means we may re-license netdata (your contributions included)
+> any way we see fit, without asking your permission.
+> Open-source licenses have significant differences and in our attempt to
+> help netdata grow we may have to distribute it under a different license.
+> For example, CNCF, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, requires netdata
+> to be licensed under Apache-2.0 for it to be accepted as a member of the
+> Foundation. We want to be free to do it.*
+
+## original work
+
+The Contributor (*you*) represent that each of his contributions is his
+original creation and that he is legally entitled to grant the above license.
+
+> *Note: if you are committing third party code, please make sure the third party
+> license or any other restrictions are also included with your commits.
+> netdata includes many third party libraries and tools and this is not a
+> problem, provided that the license of the third party code is compatible with
+> the one we use for netdata.*
+
+## signature
+
+The Contributor (*you*) signs this agreement by adding his personal data in
+this document and committing it to the project repo
+(the same way contributions are submitted to the project).
+
+By signing once, all contributions (past and future) of The Contributor (*you*),
+are subject to this agreement.
+
+> *Note: so you have to:*
+> 1. add your github username and name in this file
+> 2. commit it to the repo with a PR, using the same github username, or include this change in your first PR.
+
+# netdata contributors
+
+This is the list of contributors that have signed this agreement:
+
+username|name|email (optional)
+:--------:|:----:|:----------------
+@ktsaou|Costa Tsaousis|costa@tsaousis.gr

Makefile.am

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
     m4/ax_c__generic.m4 \
 	autogen.sh \
 	README.md \
+	CONTRIBUTORS.md \
 	LICENSE \
 	LICENSES/Apache-2.0 \
 	LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause \