Re:Don’t sign a CLA
by crdoconnor on Friday October 05, 2018 @11:16AM
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>But what if somebody was changed the license from BSD to proprietary after you've contributed to the project? Would you still be happy about it then?
If you signed a CLA then presumably you're either happy about it or you've just signed a contract you had literally zero understanding of.
If you're more concerned about getting your fix in upstream or the kudos that comes with being a committer to "x project" then yeah, you probably wouldn't mind.
I personally view Microsoft's use of CLAs as a trap that highlights just how disingenuous their "turning over a new open source leaf" was but I don't really have a problem with open source projects using them in general. The maximalist approach to open source would mean a lot of really great open source would never get written. Authors have gotta eat.
If you signed a CLA then presumably you're either happy about it or you've just signed a contract you had literally zero understanding of.
If you're more concerned about getting your fix in upstream or the kudos that comes with being a committer to "x project" then yeah, you probably wouldn't mind.
I personally view Microsoft's use of CLAs as a trap that highlights just how disingenuous their "turning over a new open source leaf" was but I don't really have a problem with open source projects using them in general. The maximalist approach to open source would mean a lot of really great open source would never get written. Authors have gotta eat.