The open source movement was always about "free as in labour." Now we're reaping the rewards of thinking it was a good idea to listen to esrhttps://twitter.com/benbjohnson/status/906209090371698688 …
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MIT/BSD licensing is a way of saying "here, big companies, have my labour for free, I don't care."
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Replying to @bodil
For me it was very different. It was saying to people who contribute: I don't retain right to exploit your work in ways you can't.
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Replying to @RichFelker @bodil
Copyleft+CLA inherently gives "official" upstream gross imbalance of power vs contributors. Even without CLA, that can happen if...
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...all the value of contribution lies in testing, bug reporting, popularizing, etc. rather than submitting code/patches subject to ©.
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Should say copyright assignment instead of CLA. Lots of projects have a harmless CLA simply agreeing to what's usually just assumed.
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i.e. you explicitly agree to make your code available under the license used by the project, but still retain ownership of your code.
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When I say CLA I mean something beyond that bare minimum that can be reasonably assumed when someone submits a patch.
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