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Forge Your Future with Open Source
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Forge Your Future with Open Source

by VM Brasseur
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 14m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Contributor License Agreement/Developer Certificate of Origin

A few free and open source software projects require all contributors to agree to either a Contributor License Agreement or a Developer Certificate of Origin before their contributions can be merged and distributed with the software. While the number of projects that require this is still relatively small, it’s increasing every year, as more projects join free and open source software foundations. Before you get started, it’s worth knowing about these documents and how they might impact your contributions.

Some projects—especially but not exclusively, those developed under the aegis of a large corporation—require all contributors to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). A CLA ...

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