4. Intellectual Property;
In-Bound.
A. Contributions to the Spec Lead. You hereby grant to each Spec
Lead (and, if different, Maintenance
Lead) for each Expert Group for which You
are not the Spec Lead, with respect to the Output of the
JSR led by the Spec.
Lead, a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up and,
subject to
Section 4.D, irrevocable, license, with the right to
sublicense:
I. Copyrights and Trade Secrets. Under Your (including, to the
extent to which You have
the power to do so, Your Affiliates’) applicable
copyrights and trade secret rights which You currently have
or may acquire in
the future, to:
(a) incorporate any and all Contributions provided by You
hereunder into current and future
versions of the Output;
(b) copy, disclose
and distribute the Contributions provided by You as part of the Spec
for
Community Review and Public Review and as part of the early access versions
of the RI and TCK; and
(c) copy, modify, develop (including the right to
authorize others to implement your Contributions
when such Contributions are
incorporated into the Spec), disclose and distribute the Contributions
provided
by You, all as part of the Output, on terms consistent with those specified in
Section 5 below.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties acknowledge that
works created by employees of the Federal
Government are not subject to
copyright protection within the United States and may be copied or used
by
interested parties.
II. Patents.
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