@hailey @tursiae i've been on the other end of this...

@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?

Like 26 February at 4:21 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.social

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Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

@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: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/168020/how-signing-out-a-cla-prevents-legal-issues-in-open-source-projects

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

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