[PROJ] OSGeo incubation status

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 9/9/19 9:06 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
>> I'm quite sure no one has signed one, and I do not see any reason for
>> contributors to PROJ to sign one going forward.
> 
> Agreed. Given the super permissive license of MIT, there would be hardly no 
> reason to relicense the code to something else. A CLA might bring other 
> advantages (like having "legal certainty" that a contribution was really 
> intended to be made as open source), but having to manage that would bring 
> complication and would make some contributors to go away.

Don't introduce a CLA, that just raises the barrier to entry unnecessarily.

I personally refuse to sign them and opt to stop contributing to the
project in question.

This is quite a good summary of the situation:

 https://ben.balter.com/2018/01/02/why-you-probably-shouldnt-add-a-cla-to-your-open-source-project/

Kind Regards,

Bas

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