yetanother1

> you can have both a CLA and be BSD

Not the case - they can claim it is so, but a BSD license with extra clauses is not a BSD license.

I don't like the idea of handing over my contributions to another party under their terms. Either release software under a common open source license (BSD, MIT) or not. Don't add additional terms with some custom license that certainly wouldn't help me.

~~You got me on Postgres. Don't use the others.~~

Edit: another post states that Postgres doesn't require a CLA for contributors. So I don't use any software requiring a CLA.

I contribute pull requests to quite a few github projects. However I avoid contributing to (or even using) projects with a Contributor License Agreement. Such projects are too bureaucratic.