Don’t sign a CLA
It&#x27;s a great point to be aware of, but the title and the tone implies that you as a contributor should be a FOSS maximalist.<p>As they say, not all open source is FOSS. And some people are OK with that. Let them contribute, as long as they are aware of the implications.<p>When I discover bugs in open-source projects during my day job (which is on a closed-source project), I will be much happier having those fixes merged upstream than having to maintain our own private fork.<p>&gt; Free and open source software licenses grant explicit freedoms to three groups: the maintainers, the users, and the contributors.<p>This is not the case of all open source licenses. And that is fine. Don&#x27;t assume all my work has to be part of your crusade. I will save that for the parts of my life where it makes sense - I am all-for the FOSS movement but there is no need to go full Stallman and say that everything but GPL is evil. If I believed that, I wouldn&#x27;t be working on a closed-source project in the first place and then this piece would be fully relevant.<p>A much better title would be &quot;Why I don&#x27;t sign CLAs&quot; or &quot;The dangers of signing CLAs&quot;.