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Re:Mailpile: Let’s take email back by icebraining on Sunday August 04, 2013 @05:36AM (#6155144)
Yeah, but the Apache Foundation already has a permissive license, and nobody expects the FSF to re-license a project, except maybe to a new version of the same.

By choosing the (A)GPL but forcing contributors to grant relicensing rights, you've excluded both those who consider copyleft licenses non-free, and those who consider copyleft licensing an important requirement.

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Re:Mailpile: Let’s take email back by binarycrusader on Sunday August 04, 2013 @09:00PM (#6157817)
Did you miss the part where I mentioned patent agreements which is another good reason why Contributor Agreements are important?

And while the Apache Foundation already has a "permissive license" it's not quite as permissive as BSD / etc.

And if the Apache Foundation wants to relicense, to say, a future version of their license, they're still going to potentially need that contributor agreement.

Again, as I said before, there are tradeoffs.

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