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Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? by monocasa on Saturday December 14, 2019 @11:17AM (#21790221)
A CLA isn't necessarily a copyright grant. The Apache one for instance doesn't have you assigning copyright to the Apache foundation. It's just signing that you actually own the works in question.

I have issues with the GNU assignment. It means that we're reliant on future owners of the GNU project to not ever relicense the codebase. A single owner is a single point of failure.

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Re:Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do? by ghaff on Saturday December 14, 2019 @11:20AM (#21790248)
I've heard that sort of thing called a developer certificate of origin or something along those lines.

The FSF is arguably something a bit unique. But most of the point of a CLA is to give a company/organization ultimate control over a code base so that it can dual license, etc.

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