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Joint Copyright Assignment by Contributor
To International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM")
Contact Information:
Name:	Yves Arrouye	
Representative:		
E-mail:	yves@arrouye.net	
Mailing Address:	18311 NE 20^th St, Redmond, WA 98052	
		
Telephone:	425 641-3745	
Facsimile:	Id.	
Country:	USA	
Contributor represents that it owns, and has sufficient rights to contribute, all source code and related material (the "Contribution") intended to be compiled or integrated with the source code and related material for the ICU open source project (including ICU4C, ICU4J and ICU4JNI) which Contributor delivers, and IBM accepts, for incorporation into the ICU open source project.
The Contribution consists of the following source code and related material:  
Many makefile porting changes. Created some installation scripts. Converter alias table changes, and some converter alias binary file format changes that were eventually replaced. (Also maintained uconv.) About 1450 lines of code.		

		

		

For good and valuable consideration, receipt of which Contributor acknowledges, Contributor hereby assigns to IBM joint copyright ownership in the Contribution.  Contributor retains joint ownership in the Contribution without restriction.  IBM and Contributor will jointly own the Contribution and each shall be free to use, execute, copy, make derivative works of, distribute, sell, license and otherwise transfer the Contribution and derivative works thereof at each party's sole discretion, without any obligation of accounting to the other.  
Contributor agrees that this assignment may be submitted by IBM to register a copyright in the Contribution.  
Contributor agrees not to initiate suit asserting any Patent Rights in the Contribution against those who use or distribute the Contribution or the Contribution in combination with the ICU project code to which it was contributed:  (1) only if such use or distribution is for the purpose of implementing the ICU APIs; and (2) with respect to combinations, only if, at the time the Contribution is submitted by the Contributor, the addition of the Contribution causes such combination to be covered by the Patent Rights.    
Patent Rights mean patent claims licensable by the Contributor which are necessarily infringed by the use or distribution of the Contribution alone or when combined with the ICU project code.
Notwithstanding the above, this agreement not to initiate suit by Contributor shall not apply to any party who asserts its own patent rights against the Contributor.
This Copyright Assignment shall be governed by the substantive Laws of the State of New York notwithstanding the choice of law provisions and the Intellectual Property Laws of the United States of America.
THE CONTRIBUTION IS OTHERWISE 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 CONTRIBUTOR 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 CONTRIBUTION OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE CONTRIBUTION.

Signed:		
Date:	2005-Jan-17	
Printed Name and Title:	Yves Arrouye	

Please complete this assignment form electronically, email it to the requester or to icuintl@us.ibm.com and then print and sign it and send it to the following address:
IBM
ICU Project, c/o Markus Scherer
MS 50-2/B11
5600 Cottle Rd
San Jose, CA 95193
USA

Contributor Questionnaire
We would also appreciate it if you would answer the following questions:

1)	Did you write all the Contribution yourself?
Yes.		

2)	If not, who else is an author?

3)	Did you refer to any third party material or code when you wrote the Contribution?
No.		

4)	If you are employed by a university (or are a student thereof), corporation or other entity, please confirm that you have been given permission by the university, corporation or other entity to assign joint copyright rights to the Contribution, if applicable.
Yes.		

5)	Do you the individual Contributor or, where the Contributor is an entity, the individual(s) involved in the authoring and/or submission of the Contribution, know of any rights such as patents or contract restrictions related to the Contribution that would affect its use and distribution by others?
No.		

(E.g., To Contributor's actual knowledge on the date this document is signed by Contributor, and without further inquiry or any patent search, no.)