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Huh, did not know that. Is it likely, though? I've always thought of them as the good guys. Any way to play the devil's advocate here?
Personally, I've been burnes by such ploys before, both personally and professionally. In my experience, corporations which introduced CLA or operate under CLA from the start have anterior motives that you are not privy to, so use their products at your own perils.
Fair enough, actually. I guess open source projects should only really be incorporated in charitable/social enterprise/community interest types of companies.
Not necessarily. The open source model does not prevent you from profiting of open source code, nor is it intended to. In fact, the previously used Apache 2 license permits you to do just that. The point of the CLA is not to being able to make a profit, the point is to get an advantage over everyone else by adding an expection that benefits only one party.
Thank you, I've learnt something today!