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title: Licensing
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# Licensing
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Please see the [LICENSE](https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/blob/master/LICENSE.md) file in our repository for the full text.
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Like many open source projects, we require that contributors provide us with a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). By submitting code to the DEV project, you are granting us a right to use that code under the terms of the CLA.
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Our version of the CLA was adapted from the Microsoft Contributor License Agreement, which they generously made available to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
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## Where can I learn more about the AGPL-3 license?
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Please refer to the official “[Why the Affero GPL](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html)” and the [FAQ page](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html) on [GNU.org](https://www.gnu.org) for full details regarding this license.
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## Why does DEV have a CLA?
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The Contributor License Agreement (CLA) is a legal document in which you state that you are entitled to contribute your code to the DEV codebase, and are willing to have it used in distributions and derivative work.
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The CLA helps provide confidence to future users that they will be allowed to use the DEV codebase without fear that a contributor will try to withdraw permissions at a later date.
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## Am I giving away the copyright of my contributions?
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No. You are granting DEV a license to use and distribute your contribution without further restriction, not assigning the copyright.
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## What if I have other questions?
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Please check out our main repository or send an email to yo@dev.to.
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