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by the_mitsuhiko 676 days ago
> As far as I understand, this allows them to unilaterally re-license the project as a whole (to proprietary or non-free open source) without asking contributors for permission.

That's generally how CLAs work, to enable re-licensing. For many commercial AGPL projects that's also needed because the copyright holding entity will sell/provide non AGPL versions to customers that legally cannot use AGPL software.