Alex Gleason on Nostr: Projects with MIT license are at risk of a contributor rescinding any license of ...
Projects with MIT license are at risk of a contributor rescinding any license of their code, if there ever was one, and forcing the project to remove all their contributions. MIT projects basically have to require a CLA to cover their ass and protect users. Yet another reason why GPL is a good license.
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