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weinzierlyesterday at 7:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

"Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to Core Devices and to recipients of software distributed by Core Devices a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works."

A few years from now we will see the usual HN thread were contributors lachrymosely complain about how their precious work was stolen by a good-turned-evil organization.


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eroheadyesterday at 7:41 PM

Please note our CLA explicitly include a clause to require Core Devices to distribute all contributions under an OSI-compatible FOSS license (e.g. GPLv3). So no contributions can be 'stolen'.

https://ericmigi.notion.site/Core-Devices-Software-Licensing...

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notpachetyesterday at 7:49 PM

> lachrymosely

Learned a new word, thank you!

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MangoToupeyesterday at 7:37 PM

Pebble was bought a long time ago by google yea? So this already happened