<div dir="auto"><div><br style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(247,249,253)"><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(247,249,253)">> Say I submit a 3-line PR to the included documentation for an OSS </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(247,249,253)">project. No text contained within the license can enforce that my PR is u</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(247,249,253)">nder that license. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(247,249,253)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(247,249,253)">I am not so sure. Strongly reciprocal licenses essentially say that any derivative work must be under their terms, or it's infringing. These are well accepted by OSI. Terms with the effect of creating legal clarity for the combined work would in general be allowable. Obviously some arbitrary terms would not be.</span></div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Bruce Perens K6BP</div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 8, 2025, 15:22 David Woolley <<a href="mailto:forums@david-woolley.me.uk">forums@david-woolley.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 08/12/2025 21:57, Josh Berkus wrote:<br>
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> <br>
> Other way around. The outgoing license is trying to put conditions on <br>
> how you contribute to the upstream project.<br>
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I think that's what I was saying, but to be concrete, my exposure to <br>
CLA's is for Asterisk, in which case the CLA allows Sangoma to use any <br>
contributions in their proprietary products. Note that they are not <br>
including the need for the CLA, for official contributions, in their <br>
open source licensing, so the particular point of this thread doesn't apply.<br>
<br>
Taking up another point, that licence doesn't guarantee that <br>
contributions will be accepted. Agreeing to the CLA is necessary, but <br>
not sufficient, for inclusion in the official repositories.<br>
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