Western Digital believes in the value of open source as a user and contributor. We recognize open source's critical role in the growth and success of the technology industry today because it encourages a community to innovate, build, and share together. Western Digital also sees open source as a critical building block to its overall corporate and business strategy.
Western Digital contributes to and maintains many open source projects. Here are some examples of our work.
Whether as a founder, member, or supporter, Western Digital works with the community to foster open source.
As a user of and contributor to many open source projects licensed under version 2 of the GPL family of licensees, we recognize that open source compliance may be difficult and may result in mistakes. To grow the open source community and allow for good-faith actors to use our contributions under the GPL, we commit as follows:
Before filing or continuing to prosecute any legal proceeding or claim (other than a Defensive Action) arising from termination of a Covered License, Western Digital commits to extend to the person or entity (“you”) accused of violating the Covered License the following provisions regarding cure and reinstatement, taken from GPL version 3. As used here, the term ‘this License’ refers to the specific Covered License being enforced.
However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to 60 days after the cessation.
Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice.
Western Digital intends this Commitment to be irrevocable, and binding and enforceable against Western Digital and assignees of or successors to Western Digital’s copyrights.
Western Digital may modify this Commitment by publishing a new edition on this page or a successor location.
'Covered License' means the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2), the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (LGPLv2.1), or the GNU Library General Public License, version 2 (LGPLv2), all as published by the Free Software Foundation.
'Defensive Action' means a legal proceeding or claim that Western Digital brings against you in response to a prior proceeding or claim initiated by you or your affiliate.
'Western Digital' means Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates.
We recognize that open source is built by healthy communities. We believe a healthy community will thrive when all participants are treated with and treat others with care and respect. To show our commitment to this idea, we have adopted the Contributor Covenant to govern all our open source projects and the conduct of all Western Digital contributors in our projects and in the larger open source community.
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