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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by nordsieck on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:11PM (#18527956)
> In turn, I'm amazed that people put effort into databases that are owned by companies. Wouldn't it be much more fulfilling to do the same work for an open database, such as open street maps?

There are tons of open source developers who contribute to code bases that require copyright assignment. They probably do it for the same reasons:

* It's personally useful

* It's useful to a lot of people

* It's (comparatively) easy to do

* It's rewarding in some other way

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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by amenghra on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:21PM (#18528411)
Most companies require a CLA. A CLA is not automatically equivalent to handing over copyright to the contribution.

In some cases, the company is asking for a license to use+distribute the code (which IMHO should be implied by open a PR in the first place).

For example, you can read Square’s CLA here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRVQ35-gq2vdSxD1kd...

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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by namibj on Sunday November 25, 2018 @07:35PM (#18530063)
GPL skips the issue due to the PR having to be GPL to even be published. AGPL might be an issue though? Would it need to be explicit? Still, GPL.
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by newnewpdro on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:10PM (#18528338)
* They're naive
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