Thank you for your interest in contributing. The BBC welcomes contributions from contract partners, hardware manufacturers, and any interested parties.
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The Agreement does not change Your rights to use Your Contributions for any other purpose.
“Contribution” means any past, present and future contributions of object code, source code and documentation submitted to the BBC (including electronically, verbally, written, by electronic mailing lists, source code control systems and issue tracking systems managed by or on behalf of the BBC), but excludes any communication marked “Not a Contribution”.
“You” or “Your” means the individual copyright owner, or company or organisation if You are entering into the BBC Contributor Agreement as an authorised representative of Your company or organisation.
“Us” means the BBC.
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Grant of Copyright Licence - subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement You hereby grant Us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, fully paid-up, royalty-free, irrevocable licence to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works.
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