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Re:Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted... by busterarm on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:16AM (#25633271)
Given past experiences, I see large group projects trending towards having CLAs/DCOs where you give up ownership of your code anyway.

Most people don't want to work with random contributors who wish to hold a gun to their heads in perpetuity.

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Re:Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted... by gary-kim on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:14PM (#25635489)
DCOs don't give copyright ownership to anyone else or even any more rights to anyone else. It is simply a declaration that you have the permission to license the code you wrote under the license you're giving it for.

This article gives a nice description of the differences: https://opensource.com/article/18/3/cla-vs-dco-whats-differe...

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Re:Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted... by falcolas on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:18AM (#25633306)
> who wish to hold a gun to their heads

An aside, that's an awfully violent visual for discussing ownership of code.

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