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The Developer Certificate of Origin is a great alternative to a CLA
- throwaway19937 6y agoDeveloper Certificates of Origin don't solve the problem of copyright termination after the death of the author. See (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/203 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/203). You can attest the origin but your estate retains the right to terminate the usage rights after your death.
- resoluteteeth 6y agoDoes this apply even even when it's an otherwise irrevocable license?
- throwaway19937 6y agoI don't think that would matter; you'd have to ask a software licensing lawyer for a definitive answer. DannyBee's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18148727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18148727) gives some other advantages of CLAs.
- flembat 6y agoBetrayed it's community. Right. Seems like an oversimplification. Unless it's community is a few giant cloud service providers.