Audacity gets a CLA

I think part of it is that there's a gradual shift in the overall FOSS community on what developers in general are comfortable with and want. But even people who are major developers and do a large part of the work on something don't do any work on 99% of the projects they use, and don't even use 99% of the projects that exist. Furthermore, each project has aspects that mean that global trends aren't necessarily the biggest factor in determining the best course for the project, and the developers of a particular project aren't necessarily the same as the average developer from the community overall. Lastly, a lot of developers in the broader community have had bad experiences with particular policies in the past, and get upset when those policies are introduced to other projects, not least because they're worried about those policies being seen as common best practices. So there's a big population of people who have good reasons to care, outside of the people directly affected.