[License-discuss] Contributor Clauses in Licenses

[David Woolley]

On 08/12/2025 21:57, Josh Berkus wrote:

> 
> Other way around.  The outgoing license is trying to put conditions on 
> how you contribute to the upstream project.

I think that's what I was saying, but to be concrete, my exposure to 
CLA's is for Asterisk, in which case the CLA allows Sangoma to use any 
contributions in their proprietary products.  Note that they are not 
including the need for the CLA, for official contributions, in their 
open source licensing, so the particular point of this thread doesn't apply.

Taking up another point, that licence doesn't guarantee that 
contributions will be accepted.  Agreeing to the CLA is necessary, but 
not sufficient, for inclusion in the official repositories.