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Re:The Exclusive License to Make Money from the Community Co... by pingsl on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:40AM (#29661685)
The exvlusive is not enforced by the terms in the CLA. It comes from the fact that contributors only sign up the CLA with the company when making contributions to the company's OSS projects, that company thus claim they have the "exclusion".
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Re:The Exclusive License to Make Money from the Community Co... by zvr on Thursday December 23, 2021 @04:06PM (#29666473)
They sign a CLA that explicitly says

> 2. [...] You hereby grant to [...] a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license [...]

and

> Except for the license granted herein to [...], You reserve all right, title, and interest in and to Your Contributions.

I am amazed that their S-1 includes language such as the one shown in the article.

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