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elasticsearch had a contributor license agreement in place for about as long as I can think, requiring full copyright assignment for all changes you’d contribut
by Xylakant 6y ago
elasticsearch had a contributor license agreement in place for about as long as I can think, requiring full copyright assignment for all changes you’d contribute.
- wylie 6y agoThat's not accurate: there is a contributor agreement but it does not assign copyright. https://www.elastic.co/contributor-agreement https://www.elastic.co/contributor-agreement
- pabs3 6y agoIt is effectively very similar to copyright assignment as it gives Elastic basically the same rights they would have if they were assigned the copyright. The only difference is the contributor also gets those rights, but in reality the rights they keep are not that useful since the rest of the codebase is owned by others.