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+                      Essential Partner Mod Integration™
+                     Use and Contribution License Agreement
+                        Last Updated: 17th April 2025
+
+This Use and Contribution License Agreement allows you to modify, create, fork,
+and use new versions of our Essential Partner Mod Integration in accordance with
+the GPL-3 License. However, if you submit a pull request with changes or
+additions to the main Essential Partner Mod Integration repository, subject to
+the terms of this license, you transfer the copyright and ownership of those
+changes to Essential. This introduction is for summary purposes only and does
+not constitute part of the agreement.
+
+                                    * * *
+
+ModCore Inc., doing business as Essential™ ("Essential"), owns, publishes,
+and makes available for download and use its Essential Partner Mod Integration™ 
+modification to the Minecraft® game (collectively with all of its features
+and content and all updates thereto and versions thereof, the "Mod"),
+including its underlying source code (collectively with all updates thereto and
+versions thereof, the "Mod Code"), subject to the terms of this Use and
+Contribution License Agreement (this "Agreement"). Each individual,
+corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other
+entity or party (each, a "Person") that downloads and/or uses the Mod and/or
+the Mod Code (each, a "User") shall be deemed to have accepted, executed, and
+be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
+
+EACH INDIVIDUAL USER MUST BE AT LEAST EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OLD TO DOWNLOAD
+AND/OR USE THE MOD AND THE MOD CODE OR, IF BETWEEN THE AGES OF THIRTEEN
+(13) AND EIGHTEEN (18), HAVE THE PERMISSION OF THEIR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN
+AND HEREBY REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT THEY HAVE OBTAINED SUCH PERMISSION.
+
+NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
+sufficiency of which are hereby accepted:
+
+1. GNU General Public License v.3.0.
+
+The GNU General Public License v.3.0, dated 29th June 2007, available at
+https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html (as amended from time to time,
+"GPL-3"), is hereby incorporated by reference into, and made part of, this
+Agreement and governs each User's download and use of the Mod and the Mod
+Code; provided, however, to the extent of any conflict between any
+permissions, rights, obligations, terms, or conditions in this Agreement and
+GPL-3, this Agreement shall govern and control, including where expressly
+stated under Section 3 of this Agreement. All other rights in and to the Mod
+and the Mod Code are hereby expressly reserved. For purposes of GPL-3, the
+Mod Code, in the form published from time to time in its code repository
+presently located at https://github.com/EssentialGG/EssentialPartnerMod
+(the "Mod Repository"), is the "Program" as defined therein.
+
+2. Creation of Modified Versions.
+
+Each User is permitted under GPL-3 to create and use "modified versions" of
+the Program (i.e., the Mod Code) as defined therein (collectively, "Modified
+Versions") and subject to the terms and conditions thereof. Each User who
+creates a Modified Version may be referred to herein as a "Contributor".
+
+3. Proposal and Acceptance of Modified Versions.
+
+Essential invites, but does not require, Contributors to submit their Modified
+Versions to Essential for potential inclusion in the Mod Code (each, a
+"Proposed Contribution"), subject to the following terms and conditions:
+
+(a) Submission Process. Contributors may submit their Proposed Contributions
+by opening a "pull request" on the Mod Repository. For more information on
+how to create a pull request, visit https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/
+collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-
+requests/creating-a-pull-request. For the avoidance of doubt, Contributors
+are not obligated to submit any of their Modified Versions to Essential as
+Proposed Contributions and may "fork" the Mod Code of their Modified
+Versions, thereby creating a derivative work subject to the terms of GPL-3.
+
+(b) Review and Acceptance. When a Contributor pushes a Proposed Contribution
+to the Repository, Essential will review the Proposed Contribution and may
+conduct whatever reviews and testing of the code as it deems necessary in its
+sole discretion, after which time Essential may (i) accept the Proposed
+Contribution (thereafter, an "Accepted Contribution"); (ii) decline the
+Proposed Contribution; or (iii) request that the Contributor make changes or
+refinements to the code for the Proposed Contribution and resubmit the
+Proposed Contribution for Essential's review and acceptance, which the
+Contributor may accept or decline in their sole discretion.
+
+(c) Merging Accepted Contributions into Mod Code. Essential will have full
+discretion whether to merge any Accepted Contribution into the Mod Code and
+the Mod Repository. Essential is not obligated to include, use, or otherwise
+exploit any Accepted Contribution (or any portion thereof) in any manner, and
+each Contributor acknowledges and agrees that any decision by Essential
+respecting the use of inclusion of their Accepted Contribution shall be in
+Essential's sole discretion.
+
+4. Ownership.
+
+Each Contributor shall retain all right, title, and interest in and to their
+respective Modified Versions and Proposed Contributions subject to the terms
+of GPL-3. In the event Essential accepts a proposed Contribution thereby
+becoming an Accepted Contribution in accordance with the terms of Section 2 of
+this Agreement, to the fullest extent allowable and for the full term of
+protection otherwise accorded to its Contributor under applicable law, the
+Contributor shall be deemed to have already (i) irrevocably assigned,
+transferred, granted, conveyed, and relinquished to Essential all right,
+title, and interest, including, without limitation, all copyrights, neighboring
+rights, trademarks, patents, and any and all other ownership and exploitation
+rights, now or hereafter recognized in any and all territories and
+jurisdictions (collectively, "IP Rights"), in and to the Accepted Contribution
+in perpetuity throughout the universe, without any compensation therefor, to
+the fullest extent allowable and for the full term of protection otherwise
+accorded to the Contributor under applicable law (including any and all
+renewals, extensions, and revivals thereof), and (ii) unconditionally and
+irrevocably waived any "moral rights," "droit moral," or similar "moral
+rights of authors" throughout the universe and in connection with the Accepted
+Contribution. Any and all of an Accepted Contribution that is incorporated by
+Essential into the Mod Code shall become fully part of, and inseparable from,
+the Mod Code and, to the extent copyrightable, the copyright claimed
+exclusively by Essential and its assignees in and to the Mod Code, whether or
+not registered with the U.S. Copyright Office or any other copyright
+registrar; a Contributor shall not register, or apply or attempt to register,
+their Accepted Contribution(s) with the U.S. Copyright Office or any other
+copyright registrar or otherwise claim status as a "joint copyright owner"
+with respect thereto. This Section 4 shall control to the extent that there
+are any conflicting terms and conditions contained in GPL-3 applicable to
+ownership of the Accepted Contribution and its Contributor's use thereof,
+including, without limitation, Paragraph 2 of Section 2 (Basic Permissions),
+Section 5 (Conveying Modified Source Versions), and Section 6 (Conveying Non-
+Source Forms) thereof, and all such activities shall constitute a breach of
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+granted by the Contributor hereunder will not conflict with or violate any
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+party Person; (ii) the Proposed Contribution, when delivered to Essential,
+will be free and clear of any liens and claims by any third party; and (iii)
+the Proposed Contribution and Essential's use thereof will not violate or
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+defend, and hold harmless Essential and its present and future parent,
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+or in part in contract, tort, negligence, statute, or otherwise (each, a
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+out of or attributable to any Accepted Contribution or material breach, or
+allegation which if true would constitute a material breach, of the
+Contributor's obligations, representations, or warranties hereunder. Essential
+shall notify the Contributor in writing of any Claim subject to
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+
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+ESSENTIAL PARTNER MOD INTEGRATION (together, the "Marks") for use in
+connection with, among other things, downloadable and non-downloadable
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+
+Nothing in this Agreement or in any course of dealing shall create any
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+between Essential, on the one hand, and any Contributor or other User, on the
+other hand. Essential shall not compensate, monetarily or otherwise, any
+Contributor in exchange for them creating, submitting, or modifying a Proposed
+Contribution or for Essential accepting and/or incorporating into the Mod Code
+any Accepted Contribution.
+
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+one hand, and each Contributor and each other User, on the other hand, with
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+contemporaneous discussions, documents, agreements, and prior course of
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+condition, or any part thereof, of this Agreement shall for any reason be
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+Agreement, it will notify each User by posting such changes or amendments on
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+USER SHOULD NOT USE OR CONTINUE TO USE THE MOD OR THE MOD CODE AND DELETE
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+
+                             [End of Agreement]