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Why is your project changing the license, and why do you assume that contributors would still have done so under whatever license you're changing to?
by evol262 4y ago
Why is your project changing the license, and why do you assume that contributors would still have done so under whatever license you're changing to?
- satvikpendem 4y agoThe license could change for any number of reasons, making a paid version, making it GPL, etc. With a CLA, I don't have to assume, I'm able to change it regardless, that's why for maintainers they are useful.
- alwayslikethis 4y agoKeeping the software free, i.e. not proprietary, even from maintainers trying to make it so, is the very point of GPL. When you ask contributors to sign a CLA, you are saying that you might want make it proprietary in the future and reserve the ability to do so. You should never sign one if you don't want to contribute to proprietary software.