syn_lwnheadline: Kuhn: Why your project doesn't need a contributor licensing agreement

Kuhn: Why your project doesn't need a contributor licensing agreement
Bradley Kuhn tells free
software projects that they need not worry about contributor license
agreements. "Thus, I encourage those considering a CLA to look past
the 'nice assurances we'd like to have — all things being equal' and focus
on the 'what legal assurances our FLOSS project actually needs to assure
its thrives'. I've spent years doing that analysis; I've concluded quite
simply: in this regard, all a project and its legal home actually need is a
clear statement and/or assent from the contributor that they offer the
contribution under the project's known FLOSS license."