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Re:Making the GPL more scary by StudentStuff on Thursday November 01, 2018 @07:11AM (#18352777)
Yep, and I'm perfectly fine with this. If someone wants a non-copyleft branch, they can pay me to rewrite the features I didn't author, otherwise I will exclude the added code from said pull request.

Its a definite edge case, but if I can get active contributors, I am not about to ask them to sign a CLA.

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Re:Making the GPL more scary by akjha on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:34AM (#18353299)
Keeping track of and excluding commits authored by others seems a lot of work. I am curious if you use any kind of tooling or process to make it easier.
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Re:Making the GPL more scary by dragonwriter on Thursday November 01, 2018 @07:29PM (#18359417)
A bigger issue might be trying to filter anything that might be derivative of contributed work not covered by CLA.
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Re:Making the GPL more scary by akjha on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:01AM (#18361138)
Yes, I am not sure how I will do that. I guess it can create enough FUD to scare away any commercial client.
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Re:Making the GPL more scary by StudentStuff on Thursday November 01, 2018 @04:18PM (#18358004)
Not yet, but I hope it becomes an issue. IMO its not bad issue to have.
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