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+Definitions:
+    Library: The software under this "CONTRIBUTING" root file. This excludes existing third-party source code vendored into the Library (often found under a "Vendor", "ThirdParty", or "Third-Party" directory)
+    Author: The original developer OR exclusive rights holder of the Library
+    Contribution (noun): Any feedback, system or process design suggestions, software patch files, pull-requests, or derived works provided to the Authors for inclusion into the Library
+    Contributing (verb): To offer, explicily or implicitly, informally or formally, a Contribution on the *.reece.sx websites, any social media network, or via other communication mediums
+    Source Provider: Any GIT (the software) based software source sharing service. Should the GIT tooling fall out of favour with the software development community, this may be substituted for any popular Source Version Control Software.
+    License: The license provided to the general public for accessing and using the software Library (often found under the root ./LICENSE or ./COPYING file)
+    Source Code: The software source code of the Library or the software source code derived from a Contribution
+    You: A contributor of a Contribution
+
+Terms:
+    By Contributing to the Library, You:
+        1) ...will have the right to access to Your Contribution in the form of Source Code and the Library's Source Code in its' current state at the time of Contributing, via a freely accessible Source Provider as deemed appropriate by the Author, under the conditions of the License,
+        2) ...waiver Your *copy*rights, patent rights, and any further intellectual property rights as they pertain to your Contribution that may be introduced into law,
+        3) ...grant the Author the non-exclusive, transferable, and nonretractable rights to sub-license, use, modify, lease, commercialize, trademark, or patent parts of or the whole entirety of the Contribution,
+        4) ...understand for the sake of representing the Library works in a professional manner, the Author will claim authorship and/or copyrights to the Contribution, without impeding on the rights granted to You by the first term
+
+Legal tl;dr/plain English intention:
+    If you provide the author your changes, the author will license it back to you under the original license, while reserving the right to do whatever they please to their project.
+    The sentiment of open source code sharing is respected by the authors commitment to keep your contributions available to you via a source control service under the original permissive license.
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-Copyright 2020-2023 Jamie Reece Wilson
+Copyright 2020-2024 Jamie Reece Wilson
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 
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 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
+Also see: ./CONTRIBUTING for contributing changes. Note that this document does not apply to changes or contributions made in a private restricted access organization.
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