Comment by victormy
10 days ago
I don't think this is a problem. The CLA is there to avoid future legal disputes. It prevents contributors from initiating IP lawsuits later on, which could cause significantly more trouble for the project.
10 days ago
I don't think this is a problem. The CLA is there to avoid future legal disputes. It prevents contributors from initiating IP lawsuits later on, which could cause significantly more trouble for the project.
Hypothetically, isn't one of the "legal disputes" that's avoided is if the projects relicenses to a closed-source model without compensating contributors, the contributors can't sue because the copyright of the contributions no longer belongs to be them?
exactly, CLA is there so project can be closed at whim of company and take all contributors work
Contributors cannot initiate IP lawsuits if they've contributed under Apache 2.0. CLAs are to avoid legal disputes when changing the license to commercial closed source.