Kuhn: Why your project doesn't need a contributor licensing agreement

Bradley Kuhn tells free software projects that they need not worry about contributor license agreements. "Thus, I encourage those considering a CLA to look past the 'nice assurances we'd like to have — all things being equal' and focus on the 'what legal assurances our FLOSS project actually needs to assure its thrives'. I've spent years doing that analysis; I've concluded quite simply: in this regard, all a project and its legal home actually need is a clear statement and/or assent from the contributor that they offer the contribution under the project's known FLOSS license."

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