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For questions about contributors, and their resources and conditions. Use the collaboration tag if your question is specific to interaction between contributors.

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Contributing as a company

The usual way projects deal with corporate contributions in a legally rigorous way is to have a company officer agree to a corporate contributor licensing agreement (CCLA) that has an attached list of …
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Is a CLA necessary?

A CLA is indeed not necessary for PDF4QT to use your contribution under the terms of the LGPL. The main purposes of this CLA are twofold: to potentially use the contribution under terms other than th …
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How can I mitigate or avoid clashes with project maintainers over my bug report(s)?

(Also, taking the term to learn and do things the right way makes you a more valuable contributor in the future, so you could view this insistence on doing things the right way as an investment in you … as a project contributor.) …
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Is it legal to have the "// (c) 2019 John Smith" header in all files when there are hundreds...

As far as I am aware, all FLOSS licenses that deal with copyright notices only require the preservation of notices that exist. Each author had the opportunity to add their own name to header when they …
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 rights as a contributor to the original repository on Github

If the project had you and other contributors formally sign a contributor licensing agreement (CLA) that outlines terms under which the project may use contributions, then the project maintainer can use … That is to say: we can assume all contributors offered their improvements under the same terms or more permissive terms (a contributor may say "everyone may use my piece however they like"). …
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