Two GitHub bots not talking to each other on a PR
Have we already said it enough times that CLAs are awful and they deserve to die?<p>They impose an unrequired additional legal burden on top of the standard software license.<p>They often require voluntary unpaid contributors to offer free support on indefinite term for software that they aren&#x27;t supposed to maintain.<p>They are part of the same problem as the proliferation of custom T&amp;Cs on online services (private parties creating whatever arbitrary set of binding rules they want on top of the standard law, assuming that they&#x27;re so important that people are ok to waste half of their lives reading their legalese bullshit).<p>The difference is that, whilst there&#x27;s no golden standard for a universal T&amp;Cs that applies to all online services, we have one for software licenses.<p>That&#x27;s the GPL, MIT, BSD or whatever license that basically every FOSS project slapts in their LICENSE.txt.<p>So, please, just stick to your LICENSE.txt, let your contributors stick to the basic common-sense rules written your CONTRIBUTING.md, and reserve a spot for CLAs in the graveyard of awful tech ideas that nobody should mourn.