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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

AFAIK that's already the deal. So the proposal is a improvement of the deal. Also don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

This is not "perfect is enemy of good" it would be if I was arguing about MIT vs GPL etc.

By signing CLA you're surrendering copyright to the company and this allows them do do whatever they wish with your contribution, including switching back to closed source.

Hashicorp was able to change license of their products exactly thanks to CLA.