I noticed a recent uptick in activity on Twitter about open source Contributor License Agreements (CLAs), mostly negative.\nThe above comment is from a friend of mine who has been involved in open source longer than I have, and whose opinions I respect. On this issue, however, I have to disagree.\nThis is definitely not the first time CLAs have been in the news. The first time I remember even hearing about them concerned MySQL. The MySQL CLA required a contributor to sign over ownership of any contribution to the project, which many thought was fine when they were independent, but started to raise some concerns when they were acquired by Sun and then Oracle. I think this latest resurgence is the result of Elastic deciding to change their license from an open source one to something more “open source adjacent”. This has caused a number of people take exception to this (note: link contains strong language).\n
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