Node.js Removes Its CLA

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/06/11/nodejs-no-cla.html

I’ve had my disagreements with Joyent‘s management
of the Node.js project. In fact, I am
generally auto-skeptical of any Open Source and/or Free Software project
run by a for-profit company. However, I also like to give credit where
credit is due.

Specifically, I’d like to congratulate Joyent for making the right
decision today to remove one of the major barriers to entry for
contribution to the Node.js project: its CLA. In
an announcement
today (see section labeled “Easier Contribution”, Joyent
announced Joyent no longer requires contributors to sign the CLA and
will (so it seems) accept contributions simply licensed under the
MIT-permissive license. In short, Node.js is, as of today, an
inbound=outbound
project.

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While I’d prefer if Joyent would in addition switch the project
to the Apache License 2.0 — or even better, the Affero GPLv3 —
I realize that neither of those things are likely to happen. 🙂 Given that,
dropping the CLA is the next best outcome possible, and I’m glad it has
happened.

For further reading on my positions against CLAs, please see these two
older blog posts: