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n_etoday at 12:52 PM1 replyview on HN

It depends what you're getting out of it. I've signed CLAs because it was more convenient for me to have my PR upstreamed rather than maintaining a fork.


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direwolf20today at 1:36 PM

I should have been more nuanced: signing a CLA is the same as releasing your code under MIT license: if your code is worth anything, a large powerful entity will steal it and claim it as their own.