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What is the deal with open source software's contributor license agreements? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why would I ever need to sign such s thing? If I contribute to an open source project, isn't it obvious that I agree to publish my code under whichever license the project is published under?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A good reason to ask that is to make sure the project licence can be changed in the future, because all copyright is owned by the project, not the contributors. Otherwise you would need to ask permission from all contributors.