[Users] [Devel] Contributor Licence Agreements

[David Sommerseth]

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On 28/04/16 12:51, Barry De Graaff wrote:
> 
> The most important reason would be, to facilitate future license chang
es.
> 
> eg. from GNU GPLv2 to v3 or something like thta.

Right, and for me personally that would be a strong argument against
CLA.  Because I want to have a say in such discussions with the power to
veto a change I do not agree to when it comes to my contributions.

A CLA could in a license change situation just as well be from GPL to a
BSD license too, which I strongly would object to.  (Why is an an
entirely different discussion we can have elsewhere)

So from a contributors point of view, a CLA more often weakens the
contributors possibility to have a say to how the contributions are
being used and managed.  Which I personally think goes against the
openness and transparency values you most often find in open source
based projects.


David S.
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