Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Contributor License Agreements Ruin Most FOSS Projects" video.

  1. Everything I've heard about Discourse makes me glad I never bothered with it, and this just reinforces that feeling. I won't sign any CLA if they label it as a necessary requirement to contribution, and if it attempts to steal copyright I refuse to contribute to that project. However, it should be noted that if a project has a single contributor or all of the contributors agree to it, they can stop using a copyleft license and swap to anything they want, including a closed source license. There are a few projects out there that have done so, TuxRacer being one of the most cited. A single developer who decided to take the project proprietary. Of course, if you were to say that it wouldn't affect the code that's already been published, then yes, it's correct to say that they can't then change that license, which is why you can still download 0.61 and mostly do with it as you please. Just to clarify that particular point because the code and the project aren't 100% the same thing, especially when we have versioning systems.
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