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But OSI-compatible FOSS licenses include pushover ones like MIT, so even though you couldn't steal all of the contributions to make a proprietary fork, any other company then could.


The CLA very well allows them to use all of the contributions to make a proprietary fork. The license is irrelevant for that[1].

Calling it "stealing" doesn't help.

[1] I'd usually call it a distraction, a sleigh of hand, smoke and mirrors, but we have to give Eric credit for not burying the CLA.


well, their new app mentioned in the post is GPL.

but in the rest of the ecosystem a bunch of the inherited code is already Apache or MIT. so, i presume you have already forked the other repos to relicense them. can you drop a link?




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