Re:We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions
by confounded on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @04:22PM
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My understanding (which could be wrong) is that it also allows them to change the licence down the road.
For example, if you've contributed code to an GPL2-licenced project, and several years later the maintainer wants to change the project's licence to BSD, having a CLA means that the maintainer doesn't need to ask contributor individually.
For example, if you've contributed code to an GPL2-licenced project, and several years later the maintainer wants to change the project's licence to BSD, having a CLA means that the maintainer doesn't need to ask contributor individually.