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Doesn't matter. Copyright, without the licensing exceptions, won't allow EvilCorp Inc. use your code even if you publish it in the clear on the internet.

Also, more relevant to the discussion I was responding to, the GPL license doesn't allow re-licensing without consent (or a pre-arranged copyright assignment - a contributor's agreement). And it's copyright law which enforces this.




Given past experiences, I see large group projects trending towards having CLAs/DCOs where you give up ownership of your code anyway.

Most people don't want to work with random contributors who wish to hold a gun to their heads in perpetuity.


DCOs don't give copyright ownership to anyone else or even any more rights to anyone else. It is simply a declaration that you have the permission to license the code you wrote under the license you're giving it for.

This article gives a nice description of the differences: https://opensource.com/article/18/3/cla-vs-dco-whats-differe...


> who wish to hold a gun to their heads

An aside, that's an awfully violent visual for discussing ownership of code.




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