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+# 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 The Project (netdata) 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 The Project (netdata), copyright in his contributions, to be licensed under the same terms as the rest of the code.
+
+## 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.
+
+## 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.
+
+# netdata contributors
+
+This is the list of contributors that have signed this agreement:
+
+username|name|email (optional)
+--------|----|----------------
+ktsaou|Costa Tsaousis|costa@tsaousis.gr