> The CLA doesn’t protect against it either, but apparently some companies think it is at least a useful additional legal barrier. IANAL and so not qualified to

> The CLA doesn’t protect against it either, but apparently some companies think it is at least a useful additional legal barrier. IANAL and so not qualified to comment on whether such CLA is actually useful I'm not a lawyer, either, but that doesn't mean I'm not qualified to comment about whether it's useful. It's not. It's stupid, and they're wrong, whether they have a lawyer endorsing it or not. Don't let the Gell-Mann amnesia take root. There are just as many* cargo cult lawyers as there are cargo cult programmers. * this is a conservative estimate