I agree with the author that a CLA is one sided since contributors are at the mercy of the organization they sign their rights over to. For the open source code

I agree with the author that a CLA is one sided since contributors are at the mercy of the organization they sign their rights over to. For the open source code a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) is more appropriate. I learned this when Debian brought it up https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/01/gitlab-switches-to-dco-license/ https://about.gitlab.com/2017/11/01/gitlab-switches-to-dco-l... For our proprietary source available code we do use a CLA since it is a custom license and we want the option to make changes to it in the future.