updated CLA with company info and added some comments

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
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--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -1,37 +1,68 @@
+<!--
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0+
+-->
+
 # netdata contributors license agreement
 
-Thank you for contributing to netdata!
+**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.
+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).
+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.
+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.
+The Contributor (*you*) grants netdata Inc. 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.
+The Contributor (*you*) hereby assigns netdata Inc. copyright in his
+contributions, to be licensed under the same terms as the rest of the code.
+
+> *Note: this means we may re-license netdata (your contributions included)
+> any way we see fit, without asking your permission.
+> Open-source licenses have significant differences and in our attempt to
+> help netdata grow we may have to distribute it under a different license.
+> For example, CNCF, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, requires netdata
+> to be licensed under Apache-2.0 for it to be accepted as a member of the
+> Foundation. We want to be free to do it.*
 
 ## 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.
+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.
+> *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.
+> netdata includes many third party libraries and tools and this is not a
+> problem, provided that the license of the third party code is compatible with
+> the one we use for netdata.*
 
 ## 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).
+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.
 
-By signing once, all contributions (past and future) of The Contributor (you), are subject to this agreement.
+> *Note: so you have to:*
+> 1. add your github username and name in this file
+> 2. commit it to the repo with a PR, using the same github username, or include this change in your first PR.
 
 # netdata contributors
 
 This is the list of contributors that have signed this agreement:
 
 username|name|email (optional)
---------|----|----------------
-ktsaou|Costa Tsaousis|costa@tsaousis.gr
+:--------:|:----:|:----------------
+@ktsaou|Costa Tsaousis|costa@tsaousis.gr