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I think a nice example that could help clarify the situation is the CLA that Canonical uses; if I remember correctly they reserve to themselves the right to cha

• mbrukman 6y ago
  Looking at the Canonical CLA [1], you're right that it allows Canonical the right to relicense contributions under any other license: > 2.3 Outbound License > Based on the grant of rights in Sections 2.1 and 2.2, if We include Your Contribution in a Material, We may license the Contribution under any license, including copyleft, permissive, commercial, or proprietary licenses. [...] However, please note that my original comment [2] was asking for a CLA which prevents usage in a proprietary setting, while the project is under a permissive license like Apache/BSD/MIT (emphasis added): > I've never seen an Apache/BSD/MIT project where the CLA (and only the CLA) prohibits commercial / proprietary / closed-source or any other use cases — if you have an example or two, could you please point them out? [1] https://ubuntu.com/legal/contributors/agreement https://ubuntu.com/legal/contributors/agreement [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23365535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23365535
  • afiori 6y ago
    It was not directly a reply to that case, it was meant to say that even if the license was GPL so that a proprietary fork was forbidden, a CLA could make it so that only the owner of the project is allowed to use your contributions as proprietary. It was an example of a case where a CLA could have caused what was imputed by the original comment.
    • mbrukman 6y ago
      That's a fair point, thanks for the clarification.