Open Source Security Podcast

By Josh Bressers & Kurt Seifried

CLAs are bad, Mkay?

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Published October 08, 2023 7:00pm

Josh and Kurt talk about contributor license agreements (CLAs). CLAs used to be seen as a necessary evil, but they're almost certainly bad now. We're seeing CLAs being abused, it's clear now anything controlled by a CLA won't be open source forever. Show Notes A Theory of Joint Authorship for Free and Open Source Software Projects Bruce Perens: What Comes After Open Source

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