        International Business machines, Inc.
  Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement ("Agreement")
        http://www.github.org/ibm-genwqe/licenses/


Thank you for your interest in IBM’s ibm-genwqe project (“Hardware
acceleration of deflate/zlib compression with IBM FPGA
accelerators"). In order to clarify the intellectual property license
granted with Contributions from any person or entity, IBM must have a
Contributor License Agreement (CLA) on file that has been signed by
each Contributor, indicating agreement to the license terms
below. This license is for your protection as a Contributor as well as
the protection of IBM and its users; it does not change your rights to
use your own Contributions for any other purpose.

This version of the Agreement allows an entity (the "Corporation") to
submit Contributions to the Project, to authorize Contributions
submitted by its designated employees to the Project, and to grant
copyright and patent licenses thereto.
   
If you have not already done so, please complete and sign, then scan
and email a pdf file of this Agreement to <haverkam@de.ibm.com>. If
necessary, send an original signed Agreement to:

IBM Deutschland RD GmbH 
SCHOENAICHER STR. 220, BOEBLINGEN 71032
Germany
Attn: Frank Haverkamp


   Please read this document carefully before signing and keep a copy
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Corporation name:    ________________________________________________
      
Corporation address: ________________________________________________

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Point of Contact:    ________________________________________________

E-Mail:              ________________________________________________

Telephone:           _____________________ 
      

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1. Definitions.

   "You" (or "Your") shall mean the copyright owner or legal entity
   authorized by the copyright owner that is making this Agreement
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   "Contribution" shall mean the code, documentation or other original
   works of authorship expressly identified in Schedule B, as well as
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Please sign: __________________________________ Date: _______________

Title:       __________________________________

Corporation: __________________________________


Schedule A

   [Initial list of designated employees.  NB: authorization is not
    tied to particular Contributions.]




Schedule B

   [Identification of optional concurrent software grant.  Would be
    left blank or omitted if there is no concurrent software grant.]

