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I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to share an entire speech bubble, without any context (as in a screenshot).

On the other hand, it's obvious that given a message like "My address is 123 Xyzzy Rd, come anytime," the user would only want to select a subset, not the entire message.

Speaking of selecting text, at least on Android there is a trend in both Google and third-party messaging apps of only letting you copy the entire message, not a substring thereof.

I wish I could take a peek into the brain of whoever came up with that idea -- ideally, after removing it with a large, sharp rock.

I am sympathetic to that view, however, I have no desire to "punish" the authors for choosing to use a CLA in this case. I am not going to waste the time of multiple people at my day job to get this approved, however. Nor do I want my mental health called into question at work, which would be a predictable result of making such a request.

I cannot sign the CLA since per its own terms, I would have to get written permission from my employer.

Luckily, as I wrote, the change is not copyrightable and no one, including myself or my employer, can claim copyright ownership over it.

HN is somehow always timely. Currently, these folks expect me to sign a CLA for a one-byte change to their README: https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker/pull/2516