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by coldpie 1624 days ago
CLAs are the reason for the harsh language. There's no reason to make contributors create and link a half-dozen accounts and read seven hundred pages of legalese to contribute to your project. It's a real barrier to contributions (see: the linked article), not to mention the time projects waste setting up these broken automated CLA systems, just to justify some lawyer getting a paycheck.