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Re:Toward Copyleft Equality for All by vorpalhex on Monday January 20, 2020 @05:14PM (#22102513)
> But CLAs aren't coercive

CLAs are frequently coercive, rights depriving and generally a bad move, and I as a FOSS contributor won't sign them.

Yes, occasionally they are used correctly - but more often than not they're used to crowdsource work on what is really a proprietary codebase with crazy potential restrictions if the owning company decides to call them in.

Re:Toward Copyleft Equality for All by tptacek on Monday January 20, 2020 @05:35PM (#22102643)
I want to be clear that I think CLAs can be a bad idea for contributors and people should think carefully before signing them. But since the AGPL doesn't obligate you to sign a CLA, I don't see how the existence of CLAs is an indictment of the AGPL or of dual-licensed business models. It's my belief that most dual-licensed software wouldn't be open sourced at all (and a lot of it wouldn't exist at all) without the dual-license model that Kuhn opposes.