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Technical advancements are always held back by politics. This is one of the main advantages of GPL, there is no CLA to sign.
by sally1620 6y ago
Technical advancements are always held back by politics. This is one of the main advantages of GPL, there is no CLA to sign.
- throwaway43423 6y agoCLA's are imposed by companies, not licenses. I'm quire sure that companies with OSS projects under GPL licenses would still want external contributors to certify that the code they contribute is theirs to contribute and can legally be licensed as GPL.
- pabs3 6y agoIndeed, there is the Developer Certificate of Origin for that: https://developercertificate.org/ https://developercertificate.org/
- semafour 6y agoSure there is: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html The owner of a GPL project doesn't own the copyright for contributed code (and therefore can't license it themselves under GPL), unless they receive a copyright assignment.