> If you sign a CLA you no longer own that code. This is untrue. The "L" in "CLA" means you are licensing the code to someone else, not transferring copyright.

> If you sign a CLA you no longer own that code. This is untrue. The "L" in "CLA" means you are licensing the code to someone else, not transferring copyright. Edit: [Here](https://github.com/Decathlon/template/blob/master/contributor-licence-agreement.md https://github.com/Decathlon/template/blob/master/contributo...) is a sample CLA you see on Github. Inter alia, > You hereby grant to Decathlon and to recipients of software distributed by Decathlon a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your Contributions and such derivative works. Observe you are licensing the code, not transferring copyright.