>But what if somebody was changed the license from BSD to proprietary after you've contributed to the project? Would you still be happy about it then? If you s

>But what if somebody was changed the license from BSD to proprietary after you've contributed to the project? Would you still be happy about it then? If you signed a CLA then presumably you're either happy about it or you've just signed a contract you had literally zero understanding of. If you're more concerned about getting your fix in upstream or the kudos that comes with being a committer to "x project" then yeah, you probably wouldn't mind. I personally view Microsoft's use of CLAs as a trap that highlights just how disingenuous their "turning over a new open source leaf" was but I don't really have a problem with open source projects using them in general. The maximalist approach to open source would mean a lot of really great open source would never get written. Authors have gotta eat.