As Elypia is a registered company, we need contracts or agreements documented on occasion to avoid legal challenges. Where possible, we like to use openly available licenses or agreements that already exist but, sometimes we make them ourselves if we don't see open alternatives available that fit our requirements.
We're hoping as a community we'll be able to create very simple and flexibly written contracts, that anyone will have the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute however they want.
Elypia is not a law firm, we do not specialize in legal documents or writing binding contracts between parties. These documents should be thoroughly checked before use, and preferably modified to suit your requirements.
All documents are shared in Markdown and text form, it's recommended to present them in a format that is most appropriate for your requirements.
You'll likely find that you'll need to alter or exclude clauses in to fit your requirements. This repository tries its best to separate clauses into sections and sub-sections, so it's easy to pick out and remove to respective statement that may be adverse to your needs.
The copyright transfer agreement as written in the repository, allows rightsholders of copyrighted material to transfer that copyright to another entity (organization or person).
Note that in some countries, transfer of copyright is not a concept that exists.
The exclusive copyright license agreement as written in the repository, grants all rights from a rightsholder of copyrighted material to another entity, except the right to commercially sub-license the work.
This means you can use, modify, and redistribute the work commercially, however may not sub-license the work to others or to the public for profit. (You can omit this clause if it doesn't suit you.)
This project is under Creative Commons which means anyone is allowed
to use, modify, and redistribute any of the documents in this project,
(the src directory) even commercially.
You do not have to attribute or declare the license internally or to parties signing your document; only if you modify and republish the documents for public use.