On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Jan Stolarek
Projects like Scala and Clojure require filling in a "Contributor [License] Agreement". I have not bothered to investigate the exact purpose.
In the absence of a license agreement, the contribution is usually owned by the submitter and not the project (copyright, see Berne convention). This doesn't scale very well. A signed CLA allows the project to demonstrate that the submitter has agreed to transfer ownership of the contribution to the project('s administrators). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net