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Tursiae

@hailey So much this. I don't care what OSS license the fix is under; BSD, GPL, whatever, but I'm not gonna assign my copyright to someone else.

26 February at 3:40 | Wall-to-wall | Open on meow.social
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Hailey

@tursiae totally, and it's just not how the social contract works. I am giving something to you out of my own kindness, take it or leave it, but placing some burdensome task on me is the exact opposite of reasonable

26 February at 3:42 | Open on hails.org
Tursiae
Adrian Chadd <verified.png>

@hailey @tursiae i've been on the other end of this (as much as i hate having to sign anything); interested in hearing what happens to an FOSS project when you don't?

26 February at 4:21 | Open on mstdn.social
Natasha Nox πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

@erikarn @hailey @tursiae If I don't get it the wrong way right now: look what happened with both the display server "Mir" as well with "upstart", both Canonical. I think those died due to CLA shenanigans.

26 February at 6:30 | Open on chaos.social
Adrian Chadd <verified.png>

@Natanox @hailey @tursiae oh wow, mir's licencing is full of hilarious shenaingans. ew.

26 February at 6:55 | Open on mstdn.social
Gokul Das

@Natanox @erikarn @hailey @tursiae Canonical is repeating exactly the same with LXD. They also changed the license to prevent the Incus team from incorporating their changes. Meanwhile, they still pull in changes from Incus - CLA or not.

26 February at 7:03 | Open on fosstodon.org
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven

@erikarn @hailey @tursiae There's some nice examples and explanations here: softwareengineering.stackexcha

But as mentioned, it might be the difference between a full volunteer project and one with an organisational entity underlying it.

26 February at 6:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Gokul Das

@tursiae @hailey You usually retain the copyright under CLA. But yes- the results are just as bad.

26 February at 7:10 | Open on fosstodon.org
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