CLA discussion - James Bottomley's blog post today

[Michael.E.Brown at dell.com]

https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/gpl-as-the-best-licence-governance-and-philosophy/


A very timely article from James Bottomley!? He addresses CLAs and provides a very compelling argument against them, rooted in equity.

"Further, the IP rights tend to be a focus for corporations, so simply joining the controlling entity (or taking a licence from it) instead of actually contributing to the project can become an end goal, thus weakening the technical contributions to the project and breaking the link with end users."


Is there a danger of this happening on this project?

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Michael
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