[jonasrosland]

Transfer of IP is not reasonable, as you should still own what you have created.

Granting a perpetual and royalty-free license is very common as can be seen in the Apache Individual Contributor License Agreement: https://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt

The Apache ICLA states that you still own the copyright of the software and can do what you want with it, they only license it from you and can then use it for the purposes stated in the agreement. It does require you to mention all the patents that you might infringe on, but only if you are aware of them. Otherwise you're pretty much in the clear.

I wouldn't have signed the document mentioned in the article, I think you made the right move.

[nanch]

Ah, that's very interesting, and much simpler! That seems better for both parties. I'll update the post to reflect this.

Thanks for your affirmation, I was feeling like a dummy being the only one that decided not to sign.