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diff --git a/contrib/zstd/PATENTS b/contrib/zstd/PATENTS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15b4a2e --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/zstd/PATENTS @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Additional Grant of Patent Rights Version 2 + +"Software" means the Zstandard software distributed by Facebook, Inc. + +Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook") hereby grants to each recipient of the Software +("you") a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable +(subject to the termination provision below) license under any Necessary +Claims, to make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise +transfer the Software. For avoidance of doubt, no license is granted under +Facebookâs rights in any patent claims that are infringed by (i) modifications +to the Software made by you or any third party or (ii) the Software in +combination with any software or other technology. + +The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, +if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate +directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent +Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate +affiliates, (ii) against any party if such Patent Assertion arises in whole or +in part from any software, technology, product or service of Facebook or any of +its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates, or (iii) against any party relating +to the Software. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Facebook or any of its +subsidiaries or corporate affiliates files a lawsuit alleging patent +infringement against you in the first instance, and you respond by filing a +patent infringement counterclaim in that lawsuit against that party that is +unrelated to the Software, the license granted hereunder will not terminate +under section (i) of this paragraph due to such counterclaim. + +A "Necessary Claim" is a claim of a patent owned by Facebook that is +necessarily infringed by the Software standing alone. + +A "Patent Assertion" is any lawsuit or other action alleging direct, indirect, +or contributory infringement or inducement to infringe any patent, including a +cross-claim or counterclaim. |