CONTRIBUTOR TERMS, CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSIGNMENT
These Contributor Terms, Confidentiality Agreement, and Intellectual Property Assignment govern your accepted access to, participation in, and contributions to the private development environment for the video game project Operation: Harsh Doorstop, operated by Bluedrake42 Limited Company.
These terms apply only if your application is accepted, your access to the Project is approved, or the Company otherwise grants you access to any private Project Area, private Project information, or private Project materials.
Submitting an application, clicking “I Agree,” checking an acceptance box, or otherwise acknowledging these terms as part of an application does not, by itself, make these terms effective unless and until your application is accepted, your access is approved, or the Company grants you access to private Project materials.
If your application is rejected, denied, ignored, withdrawn before acceptance, or remains pending, these terms do not apply to you, and no confidentiality, intellectual property assignment, work-for-hire, license, waiver, indemnification, or other obligation under these terms is created by your application alone.
If your application is accepted, your access is approved, or the Company grants you access to any private Project Area, private Project information, or private Project materials, then by accessing any private Project Area, receiving any private Project information, or submitting any Contribution after acceptance or approval, you agree to be bound by these terms.
If you do not agree to these terms after acceptance or approval, do not access any private Project materials, do not enter any private Project Area, and do not submit any Contribution.
1. Definitions
“Company” means Bluedrake42 Limited Company, including its owners, officers, managers, members, employees, contractors, agents, representatives, successors, assigns, affiliates, and authorized project administrators.
“Project” means Operation: Harsh Doorstop, including the game, all related software, services, tools, systems, websites, servers, repositories, builds, documents, assets, development work, community systems, marketing materials, and any related or derivative projects.
“You” means the person whose application has been accepted, whose access has been approved, or who has otherwise been granted access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
“Project Areas” means any private or restricted space, system, server, repository, document, communication channel, file-sharing system, task tracker, build, tool, development environment, testing environment, or other location connected to the Project.
“Contribution” means anything you create, submit, upload, send, disclose, provide, suggest, post, transmit, commit, design, write, record, edit, modify, test, document, or otherwise make available to the Company or the Project after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
“Confidential Information” means any non-public information related to the Company, the Project, or any related work that you receive, access, view, download, hear, learn, or obtain after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
2. No Effect Unless Accepted or Approved
These terms do not apply to rejected applicants, denied applicants, ignored applicants, withdrawn applicants, or pending applicants unless and until the Company accepts the application, approves access, or otherwise grants access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
No person becomes bound by these terms merely by submitting an application, expressing interest, communicating with the Company, or waiting for an application decision.
If the Company rejects, denies, ignores, or does not approve an application, the applicant has no confidentiality obligation, intellectual property assignment obligation, work-for-hire obligation, license obligation, waiver obligation, indemnification obligation, or other obligation under these terms based solely on that application.
Once the Company accepts your application, approves your access, or grants you access to any private Project Area, private Project information, or private Project materials, these terms become effective and apply to all access, information, materials, and Contributions provided, received, viewed, created, or submitted after that acceptance, approval, or grant of access.
3. No Guarantee of Continued Access, Payment, or Credit
Acceptance, approval, access, or making a Contribution does not guarantee continued access to the Project, payment, employment, contractor status, public credit, private credit, ownership, revenue share, bonus, reimbursement, or any other benefit.
The Company may approve, reject, suspend, restrict, revoke, or terminate your access to the Project at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice.
If your access is later suspended, restricted, revoked, or terminated, all confidentiality obligations, intellectual property assignments, licenses, waivers, indemnification obligations, restrictions, and any other provisions intended to survive will continue to apply to the period during which you had accepted or approved access.
4. No Employment, Partnership, Agency, or Authority
Unless a separate written agreement signed by the Company expressly says otherwise, you are not an employee, partner, joint venturer, agent, representative, officer, owner, or legal delegate of the Company.
You may not bind the Company, speak on behalf of the Company, make public statements as a Company representative, enter into agreements for the Company, represent Company policy, or imply that you have authority to act for the Company unless the Company gives you express written permission.
5. Confidential Information
Confidential Information includes, without limitation:
Private Discord messages, channels, posts, calls, meetings, chats, emails, direct messages, notes, announcements, and internal communications;
Source code, repositories, branches, commits, scripts, tools, plugins, build systems, technical systems, infrastructure, credentials, security practices, development workflows, bug reports, crash reports, and engineering discussions;
Game builds, prototypes, unreleased versions, test versions, experimental features, private servers, internal tools, backend systems, databases, and development environments;
Design documents, balance plans, roadmaps, gameplay systems, mechanics, lore, missions, levels, maps, art direction, feature plans, production schedules, and internal planning materials;
Assets, models, textures, animations, sounds, music, user interface materials, icons, logos, promotional materials, screenshots, videos, marketing plans, trailers, and unreleased media;
Business plans, monetization plans, publishing plans, partnership discussions, legal discussions, financial information, contractor information, personnel information, moderation information, enforcement information, investigation information, community management information, and internal policy discussions;
Any information that a reasonable person would understand to be private, sensitive, confidential, proprietary, internal, restricted, unreleased, or not intended for public disclosure.
Confidential Information remains confidential even if it is not marked “confidential.”
Confidential Information does not include information that you received solely as a rejected, denied, ignored, withdrawn, or pending applicant before any acceptance, approval, or grant of private Project access.
6. Duty of Confidentiality
You agree to keep all Confidential Information strictly confidential.
You may not, without the Company’s prior written permission:
Disclose Confidential Information to any person or entity;
Publish, leak, post, stream, record, screenshot, archive, mirror, copy, summarize, describe, distribute, quote, paraphrase, or transmit Confidential Information;
Share Confidential Information with friends, family, other developers, other communities, competitors, media, content creators, viewers, subscribers, fans, server members, or the public;
Use Confidential Information for any purpose other than authorized participation in the Project;
Use Confidential Information to compete with the Company or the Project;
Use Confidential Information to harm, embarrass, pressure, defame, harass, extort, threaten, manipulate, or interfere with the Company, the Project, its team, its community, or its business relationships;
Attempt to reverse engineer, scrape, copy, clone, reproduce, bypass, exploit, or misuse any private system, tool, build, repository, server, workflow, or technical process;
Retain Confidential Information after your access ends except as required by law.
7. No Leaks, Screenshots, Recordings, or Unauthorized Archives
You may not record, screenshot, screen capture, stream, save, copy, export, archive, download, scrape, mirror, preserve, or redistribute private Project materials or communications except as expressly authorized by the Company.
This restriction applies to all private Project Areas, including Discord, email, repositories, build systems, task trackers, shared drives, internal documents, voice calls, meetings, private messages, and development tools.
8. Public Statements and Content
You may not make public statements, videos, posts, streams, comments, articles, announcements, leaks, teasers, previews, reviews, accusations, claims, or disclosures about private Project matters without the Company’s prior written permission.
You may not imply that you represent the Company or the Project unless expressly authorized in writing.
You may not use your access to the Project for clout, promotion, leverage, drama, harassment, retaliation, public pressure, or personal benefit.
9. Return and Deletion of Materials
Upon request by the Company, or upon loss, suspension, restriction, or termination of access, you must immediately stop using all Confidential Information and delete, return, or destroy all Company materials in your possession or control, except where retention is required by law.
This includes local copies, screenshots, exports, recordings, notes, archives, downloaded builds, source code, assets, documents, credentials, and any other Project-related materials.
Upon request, you agree to provide written confirmation that you have complied with this section.
10. Contributions
You understand that any Contribution you submit to the Company or the Project after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials may be used, modified, edited, combined, removed, rejected, replaced, published, commercialized, sublicensed, distributed, sold, assigned, or otherwise exploited by the Company in any manner, for any purpose, in any media, worldwide, forever.
Contributions include, without limitation:
Code, scripts, plugins, tools, systems, fixes, commits, branches, pull requests, build files, configuration files, shaders, materials, and technical work;
Art, textures, models, meshes, animations, rigs, maps, levels, sounds, music, voice recordings, interface elements, icons, logos, videos, screenshots, trailers, and promotional materials;
Design ideas, gameplay concepts, balancing suggestions, mechanics, systems, documentation, writing, dialogue, lore, missions, level layouts, feedback, testing notes, QA reports, bug reports, crash reports, and production notes;
Any other idea, material, improvement, suggestion, or work product submitted to or created for the Company or the Project.
Nothing in these terms assigns, transfers, licenses, or grants the Company rights to materials submitted only as part of a rejected, denied, ignored, withdrawn, or pending application before any acceptance, approval, or grant of private Project access.
11. Work Made for Hire
To the maximum extent permitted by law, each Contribution submitted after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials is specially ordered or commissioned by the Company and is intended to be a “work made for hire” under applicable copyright law, with the Company deemed the author and exclusive owner of the Contribution from the moment of creation.
To the extent any Contribution qualifies as a work made for hire, all rights, title, and interest in that Contribution belong exclusively to the Company.
12. Assignment of Rights
To the extent any Contribution, or any part of a Contribution, does not qualify as a work made for hire, you hereby irrevocably assign, transfer, convey, and grant to the Company all rights, title, and interest in and to that Contribution, including all intellectual property rights, copyrights, neighboring rights, moral rights to the maximum extent waivable, database rights, trade secret rights, patent rights, trademark rights, design rights, publicity rights, and all other proprietary rights throughout the world.
This assignment applies only to Contributions submitted after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
This assignment includes, without limitation, the exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, sublicensable right to:
Use, copy, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, combine, compile, publish, distribute, display, perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, sell, license, sublicense, assign, commercialize, monetize, and otherwise exploit the Contribution;
Include the Contribution in the Project or any other Company product, service, work, project, marketing material, technology, system, or derivative project;
Register, enforce, defend, maintain, abandon, transfer, and otherwise control intellectual property rights in the Contribution;
Use the Contribution with or without credit, attribution, notice, payment, approval, or further permission.
13. Backup License
If any assignment in these terms is found invalid, incomplete, or ineffective for any reason, you grant the Company an exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, sublicensable license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, combine, compile, publish, distribute, display, perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, sell, license, sublicense, assign, commercialize, monetize, and otherwise exploit the Contribution in any manner and for any purpose.
This backup license applies only to Contributions submitted after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
This backup license is intended to give the Company the broadest rights legally possible.
14. Waiver of Moral Rights and Similar Rights
To the maximum extent permitted by law, you waive and agree not to assert any moral rights, droit moral, rights of attribution, rights of integrity, rights of withdrawal, rights of disclosure, rights of approval, or similar rights in any Contribution.
To the extent any such rights cannot be waived, you agree not to enforce them against the Company, the Project, or any party authorized by the Company.
This waiver applies only to Contributions submitted after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
15. Further Assurances
You agree to sign, confirm, execute, or provide any additional documents, records, assignments, declarations, consents, or confirmations reasonably requested by the Company to confirm, perfect, register, enforce, defend, or transfer the Company’s rights in any Contribution.
If you fail or refuse to do so, you appoint the Company as your attorney-in-fact solely for the limited purpose of executing documents necessary to confirm or perfect the rights granted under these terms. This appointment is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable to the maximum extent permitted by law.
This section applies only to Contributions submitted after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
16. No Obligation to Use Contributions
The Company has no obligation to review, accept, use, publish, maintain, credit, compensate, preserve, or return any Contribution.
The Company may remove, modify, replace, rewrite, delete, abandon, or decline any Contribution at any time.
17. No Additional Compensation
You understand and agree that, unless a separate written agreement signed by the Company expressly states otherwise, you are not entitled to any payment, royalty, revenue share, ownership interest, equity, fee, bonus, reimbursement, credit, attribution, or other compensation for any Contribution.
As additional consideration for these terms and any Contribution submitted after acceptance or approval, the Company may, upon your written request, pay you a nominal contribution fee of one U.S. dollar. You agree that this nominal payment, together with any access to the Project, review of your accepted application, review of your Contributions, and the mutual promises in these terms, is sufficient legal consideration for the rights, assignments, licenses, waivers, releases, restrictions, and obligations contained in these terms.
You are responsible for requesting the nominal contribution fee if you want it. If you do not request it, you waive payment of that fee. No failure to request or receive the nominal contribution fee affects the Company’s ownership of, assignment of, or license to any Contribution submitted after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
18. Your Representations and Warranties
You represent and warrant that:
You have the legal right and authority to accept these terms after acceptance or approval;
You have the legal right to submit each Contribution;
Your Contributions are original to you or you have all rights necessary to grant the Company the rights described in these terms;
Your Contributions do not knowingly infringe, misappropriate, or violate any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy right, publicity right, contract right, license, open-source license, employment agreement, contractor agreement, confidentiality agreement, or other third-party right;
Your Contributions do not contain malware, spyware, backdoors, malicious code, stolen code, unauthorized third-party materials, confidential third-party information, or materials you are not allowed to provide;
You will not submit materials from a current or former employer, client, school, project, repository, game, mod, contractor relationship, or third party unless you have full legal authority to do so;
You will promptly notify the Company if you become aware of any claim, restriction, conflict, or issue involving any Contribution.
19. Open-Source and Third-Party Materials
You may not include open-source, copyleft, Creative Commons, third-party, marketplace, asset-store, AI-generated, scraped, extracted, leaked, ripped, reverse-engineered, or otherwise externally sourced materials in any Contribution unless you clearly disclose that fact to the Company in writing and receive written approval before submission.
You must identify all third-party licenses, source links, authorship information, restrictions, and attribution requirements connected to any approved third-party material.
You may not submit anything that would require the Company or the Project to disclose source code, license the Project under open-source terms, provide attribution not approved by the Company, pay royalties, restrict commercial use, restrict distribution, or otherwise limit the Company’s rights.
20. AI-Generated Materials
You may not submit AI-generated or AI-assisted materials unless you disclose that the materials were generated or assisted by AI and identify the tools used, if requested by the Company.
You represent that any AI-generated or AI-assisted materials you submit may lawfully be used by the Company under these terms and do not violate any third-party rights, platform terms, dataset restrictions, confidentiality obligations, or applicable law.
The Company may reject, remove, modify, or require replacement of any AI-generated or AI-assisted material at any time.
21. Security and Access
You agree to follow all Company security instructions, access rules, repository rules, build rules, communication rules, and project policies.
You may not share accounts, credentials, private links, invite links, builds, files, tokens, keys, passwords, repositories, documents, or access permissions with anyone.
You must promptly notify the Company if you believe any access, credential, account, system, repository, build, or Confidential Information has been compromised, leaked, copied, misused, or accessed without authorization.
22. No Reverse Engineering or Circumvention
You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, scrape, data mine, bypass, exploit, circumvent, modify, clone, copy, or misuse any private Project system, build, codebase, tool, server, repository, anti-cheat system, backend system, security system, or technical process except as expressly authorized by the Company for legitimate Project work.
23. Non-Disparagement Regarding Confidential Matters
You may not use Confidential Information, private Project access, internal communications, or private Company materials to make public accusations, attacks, threats, misleading statements, selective disclosures, or defamatory claims about the Company, the Project, its team, its contributors, its partners, or its community.
Nothing in these terms prevents you from making truthful reports to law enforcement, government agencies, courts, or regulators where protected by law.
24. Legal Exceptions
Nothing in these terms prohibits you from:
Reporting possible violations of law to law enforcement, government agencies, courts, or regulators;
Participating in legally protected whistleblower activity;
Making disclosures that cannot legally be restricted;
Responding to a valid court order, subpoena, or other legal process, provided that you give the Company prompt written notice unless legally prohibited from doing so.
25. Injunctive Relief
You understand and agree that unauthorized disclosure, misuse, copying, or distribution of Confidential Information or Contributions may cause immediate and irreparable harm to the Company and the Project.
The Company may seek temporary, preliminary, and permanent injunctive relief, specific performance, and other equitable remedies for any actual or threatened breach of these terms, without needing to prove monetary damages and to the maximum extent permitted by law without posting bond.
These remedies are in addition to any other rights or remedies available at law or in equity.
26. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, the Project, and their owners, officers, managers, members, employees, contractors, agents, representatives, successors, assigns, affiliates, and authorized project administrators from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, expenses, settlements, judgments, penalties, and attorneys’ fees arising out of or related to:
Your breach of these terms;
Your unauthorized disclosure or misuse of Confidential Information;
Your Contributions;
Any claim that your Contribution infringes, misappropriates, or violates any third-party right;
Your violation of law;
Your misconduct, negligence, fraud, or intentional wrongdoing.
This indemnification obligation applies only after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
27. Termination of Access
The Company may terminate, suspend, restrict, or revoke your access to the Project at any time.
Upon termination, suspension, restriction, or revocation of access, you must immediately stop accessing Project Areas and stop using Confidential Information.
All confidentiality obligations, intellectual property assignments, licenses, waivers, indemnification obligations, restrictions, and any other provisions intended to survive will continue after your access ends.
28. Governing Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and applicable federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
29. Venue and Jurisdiction
To the maximum extent permitted by law, any dispute arising out of or related to these terms, the Project, Confidential Information, or any Contribution must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Kentucky.
You consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts and waive any objection based on inconvenience, lack of personal jurisdiction, or improper venue to the maximum extent permitted by law.
30. Severability
If any provision of these terms is found invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
Any invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable provision will be interpreted or modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid, lawful, and enforceable while preserving its original intent as closely as possible.
31. Entire Agreement
These terms, together with any additional written project policies or separate written agreements signed by the Company, form the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding your accepted access to the Project, Confidential Information, and Contributions.
These terms supersede any prior or contemporaneous oral or written discussions, messages, understandings, assumptions, or informal statements regarding the same subject matter.
These terms do not create any obligation for rejected, denied, ignored, withdrawn, or pending applicants unless and until the Company accepts the application, approves access, or otherwise grants access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
32. Changes to These Terms
The Company may update these terms from time to time.
Your continued access to Project Areas, continued participation in the Project, or continued submission of Contributions after updated terms are made available constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
33. Electronic Acceptance
After your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials, you agree that clicking “I Agree,” checking an acceptance box, accessing private Project materials, entering a private Project Area, or submitting a Contribution constitutes your electronic acceptance of these terms.
You agree that electronic acceptance has the same legal effect as a physical signature to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Submitting an application, clicking “I Agree,” or checking an acceptance box before acceptance or approval does not make these terms effective unless and until your application is accepted, your access is approved, or the Company otherwise grants you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials.
34. Acknowledgment
By accepting these terms after your application has been accepted, your access has been approved, or the Company has otherwise granted you access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials, you acknowledge that:
You have had an opportunity to read these terms;
You understand that these terms affect your legal rights;
You understand that the Company will own or have full rights to use your Contributions submitted after acceptance or approval;
You understand that you may not leak, disclose, copy, publish, or misuse Confidential Information received after acceptance or approval;
You understand that rejected, denied, ignored, withdrawn, or pending applicants are not bound by these terms unless and until the Company accepts the application, approves access, or otherwise grants access to private Project Areas, private Project information, or private Project materials;
You agree to be legally bound by these terms after acceptance or approval.