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colordrops 55 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Redis is open source again

A contributor license agreement that does anything besides put your code under the project's standard OSS license is a huge red flag.

assassinator42 55 days ago [–]

I took a bit of umbrage with LineageOS for this.

CyanogenMod required a CLA to assign them copyright to Cyanogen Inc, only for them to basically kill the project. They forked it as LineageOS only to still require a CLA.

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