Public domain (CC0)

Capacity contribution agreement — public domain (CC0)

1. Parties

This agreement is between {{ownerName}} (the "Owner") and {{contributorName}} (the "Contributor"). It covers one project, {{projectTitle}}, and takes effect on {{effectiveDate}}.

2. What is being contributed

The Contributor commits {{ccuCommitted}} CCU of Claude Code capacity to {{projectTitle}}. One CCU equals one percent of a Claude Pro weekly Claude Code allowance, so {{ccuCommitted}} CCU is that fraction of a week's usage. That capacity comes with the Contributor's actual time directing the work: writing prompts, reviewing what the model produces, and fixing it when it is wrong. The platform's ledger tracks capacity spent, not the quality of what came out of it — spending the capacity is the obligation, not delivering a working result.

3. Ownership of the work produced

Neither party ends up owning this work, because both of you are giving up ownership entirely. Everything produced is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal and published at {{repoUrl}}. Both the Owner and the Contributor waive all copyright and related or neighboring rights in their contributions, worldwide, to the fullest extent the law allows. In places where a full waiver is not legally possible, each party instead grants an unconditional, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to do anything at all with the work — the practical effect is the same. Nobody has to ask permission, and nobody controls what happens to it next.

4. Intellectual property

The CC0 dedication covers code, prompts, configuration, documentation and AI-generated output produced under this agreement. In practice this means anyone — including strangers who never signed this agreement — may use the work commercially, modify it, relicense their own modifications under whatever terms they want, and take credit for their own compilation of it. Neither party can require attribution or object to how the work gets used afterward. Two things this waiver does not reach: it waives copyright, not patents or trademarks, so if either party holds a relevant patent it is not touched by this clause. And neither party may dedicate material they don't own — if either of you brings in third-party code or assets, that material keeps its own licence, stays clearly separated from the CC0 material, and is labeled as such in the repository.

5. Credit and attribution

Attribution is welcomed but required by nothing. Because the work is public domain, anyone using it — including the Owner and the Contributor themselves — is free to credit the project, credit nobody, or credit only themselves. Neither party can demand otherwise.

6. Confidentiality

Almost everything under this agreement is intended to become public. Confidentiality is limited to credentials and any material either party explicitly marks private before sharing it with the other. Once something is dedicated to the public domain and published at {{repoUrl}}, this clause no longer has anything to protect.

7. No warranty

Everything here is provided as-is. AI-generated code and text can be wrong, insecure, or built on a misreading of the task, and neither party promises otherwise. Neither warrants that the project works, is secure, or is free of third-party claims. Neither party is liable to the other for indirect or consequential losses connected to this agreement.

8. Not a partnership, not employment

The Owner and the Contributor are independent parties collaborating on a shared project, not partners, employers, or agents of each other. There is no joint venture. Each handles their own taxes on anything connected to this work. UseMyTokens is the platform that connected the two of you and records the capacity ledger; it is not a party to this agreement and is not responsible for enforcing it.

9. Termination

Either party can stop contributing at any time by telling the other. Capacity already spent through the platform is not refunded. Once material is dedicated to the public domain and published, that dedication is irrevocable — it stands regardless of whether either party later stops working on the project, and regardless of any disagreement between you. That irrevocability is the point of choosing this template. Sections 4, 6, 7 and 10 survive termination.

10. Governing law

This agreement is governed by the laws of {{governingLaw}}. If a disagreement comes up, both parties agree to try to work it out directly before taking it further.

11. Signing

Both parties sign this agreement electronically on UseMyTokens by typing their full legal name. On signing, the platform stores a SHA-256 hash of this exact agreement text alongside each signature, so either the Owner or the Contributor can later prove exactly what they agreed to.

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Not legal advice. UseMyTokens produced this document from a template. It is a starting point written to be read, not a substitute for a lawyer. Nobody here has reviewed it against your situation, your jurisdiction or your project. If real money, employment, an existing NDA or someone else's intellectual property is involved, get it looked at before you sign.