"Why are open sourcing this?"
"There's no reason not to."
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Replying to @crandycodes
Maybe it would be great if CLAs were abandonned in favor of each authors contributing to the open source projects and keeping their author-rights.
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Replying to @adulau
IANAL, but I can see why the CLA is helpful. Software is easier to consume with licenses making usage clear. jw, what rights do you think should be retained? To be honest, never thought much about CLAs.
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Replying to @crandycodes
CLA is basically telling the contributors that his contributions are becoming the one from the organisation and telling him/her that the organisation can relicense. Having multiple copyright owners to ensure the social contract while keeping the original licensing is better IMHO.
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Replying to @adulau
I'd rather have less legal headaches, imo. Most licenses allow folks to fork. I'd rather be free to accept and give code freely. But I may be naive. Without the copyright clause, I'd never be able to accept a PR. Lawsuits would be everywhere because MSFT is a big target.
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Replying to @crandycodes @adulau
Even if you understandably don't want to send a PR because of the consequences of this litigious world, at least the source is open, which is still really cool, to me.
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Replying to @crandycodes
Sure. I’m just saying that because we tend to avoid CLA in our team and pick an open source project where there is a way to ensure the continuity of the license.
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That ends up being the difference between just plain open source and open governance/etc. As cool as Microsoft is in github, that's why we still do partnerships with folks like @linuxfoundation where governance is handled for us in a transparent, unbiased way.
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