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		j1elo on July 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sourcegraph is no longer open source And that's why I believe that requesting a mandatory CLA should drive contributions down in OSS projects. Otherwise, you're basically providing free labor without the counterpart's promise of keeping the code free, which is (should?) be the reason one is making their contributions to start with.

dolmen on July 4, 2023 [–]

Except that external contributions to a full product are usually minuscule (mostly typos) compared the codebase.

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