Warning: Some posts on this platform may contain adult material intended for mature audiences only. Viewer discretion is advised. By clicking ‘Continue’, you confirm that you are 18 years or older and consent to viewing explicit content.
There was a talk on exactly this at a FOSDEM years ago, and the verdict was that licence changes were prohibitively difficult if the project was openly developed because you need to acquire permission to change the licence from every contributor. This is why some projects (React for example) require the signing of a contract in advance of any PR merge that transfers the ownership of the contribution to “the project”.
So, if Matrix is (a) developed openly, allowing contributions from anyone, and (b) doesn’t require the signing of a bullshit CLA, I think it’s fine.
There was a talk on exactly this at a FOSDEM years ago, and the verdict was that licence changes were prohibitively difficult if the project was openly developed because you need to acquire permission to change the licence from every contributor. This is why some projects (React for example) require the signing of a contract in advance of any PR merge that transfers the ownership of the contribution to “the project”.
So, if Matrix is (a) developed openly, allowing contributions from anyone, and (b) doesn’t require the signing of a bullshit CLA, I think it’s fine.
Yeah. I have a strict policy of never signing any CLAs. Their loss.