Re: Contributor Clauses in Licenses
Josh Berkus <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Dec 2025 13:57:22 -0800
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On 12/8/25 1:46 PM, David Woolley wrote: >> 1. Unless enforced by some other mechanism (CLA, repository TOS, >> etc.), it is not automatically true that contributions are under the >> license in the first place; > > CLAs aren't licences to the contributor, but rather a licence from the > contributor to the initial developer, often allowing the initial > developer to use the contributions outside of open source licensing. As > such I don't see how they can be used to constrain someone creating > modifications to the code. Other way around. The outgoing license is trying to put conditions on how you contribute to the upstream project. -- Josh Berkus _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org