Comment by spicymaki
3 months ago
Stallman was right. When will the developer community learn not to contribute to these projects with awful CLAs. The rug has been pulled.
3 months ago
Stallman was right. When will the developer community learn not to contribute to these projects with awful CLAs. The rug has been pulled.
MinIO doesn't seem to have had a CLA though?
MinIO had a de facto CLA. MinIO required contributors to license their code to the project maintainers (only) under Apache 2. Not as bad as copyright assignment, but still asymmetric (they can relicense for commercial use, but you only get AGPL). https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/.github/PULL_REQU...
Isn't that standard protective boilerplate so that they cant get rugpulled themselves on a contribution, 2 years later? I thought the ASF had something similar.
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This wording was added in the template in August 2023. What's the licensing situation for community contributions before then?
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Where does Stallman say anything about CLAs?
Except... the FSF is actually on the extreme opposite end of this issue. They do formal copyright assignment from the GNU contributors to the FSF. This way, they have a centralized final say on enforcement that is resistant to copyleft trolls, but it ultimately allows the theoretical possibility of a rugpull.
The FSF can't pull the rug because of its bylaws