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Why we picked AGPL

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Re: Why we picked AGPL

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Q: What's wrong in having a CLA? A: It allows you to re-license your project in future. It gives the original author the right to relicense your contributions at a moment's notice, to a license you might not agree with. It effectively means that you cannot contribute to the project under fair terms. A CLA is similar to a EULA in the sense that most people don't care about it and blindly click "Agree", and as such are…

You have just listed the benefits of having a CLA. This post is about why projects should pick a license not how contributors should prioritise what they spend their time on. If you are trying to build something commercial and be open-source this is a good recommendation.

In short, if you want to appear like a corporation who acts in bad faith, aims to abuse their contributors and only cares about FOSS for the free labor they get from the people who are gullible enough to contribute, a CLA is a great choice for your product!

Re: Why we picked AGPL

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Many GNU projects are maintained directly by the FSF/GNU (the same entity; their own statements acknowledge that they share personnel and have no clear boundary between them). And for many more projects they hold the copyright and provide the funding/hosting/etc. and the named maintainer is either a member or affiliated with the FSF/GNU, which suggests they exercise some control over it (e.g. the published hosting re…

And the named maintainer has the right to not require CLA:s for their project. The FSF does not require the maintainer to require CLA:s.

Well, requiring copyright assignment (not just a CLA) is in their published rules for using Savannah, and something almost all major GNU/FSF projects did in the past. Even if it's now something they merely encourage rather than require (and I'd be interested to see a public confirmation of this) my point stands.
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