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> With all of the well-known open source licenses, it's generally clear to the author up front what rights they are granting. With CLAs they are usually fuzzy by design

Not my experience at all.

> Oracle is practically a textbook example of why this is usually a bad thing for developers/users.

What would have happened differently there if people had contributed under an MIT license instead of signing a CLA?




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