Re: OSGeo incubation status
Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]>
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On 9/9/19 9:06 PM, Even Rouault wrote: >> I'm quite sure no one has signed one, and I do not see any reason for >> contributors to PROJ to sign one going forward. > > Agreed. Given the super permissive license of MIT, there would be hardly no > reason to relicense the code to something else. A CLA might bring other > advantages (like having "legal certainty" that a contribution was really > intended to be made as open source), but having to manage that would bring > complication and would make some contributors to go away. Don't introduce a CLA, that just raises the barrier to entry unnecessarily. I personally refuse to sign them and opt to stop contributing to the project in question. This is quite a good summary of the situation: https://ben.balter.com/2018/01/02/why-you-probably-shouldnt-add-a-cla-to-your-open-source-project/ Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 _______________________________________________ PROJ mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/proj