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They use the classic AGPL + license assignment CLA combo.
This lets them relicense community contributions however they want, including making them proprietary. Everyone has to abide by the AGPL terms, apart from them. This puts them in a privileged position compared to the rest of the community, which I don't like.
Edit: @artyom@piefed.social pointed to a commit that removes the CLA from many places in the repo. They didn't (forgot to?) remove it from the
LICENSING.mdfile, which is where I found the requirement when digging around the repository.When I saw the requirement in
LICENSING.md, I took that at face value. I think that was a fair assumption to make, but I'm still sorry that I got it wrong, especially as this became the top comment.The creator has stated once the refactor goes live and pull requests are repoend, the CLA will be removed. Time will tell if they stick to their word.
Why is there a CLA in the first place then? I don't understand. What's the reasoning?
I've seen it talked about a few times but here's an instance of it from early on (sorry for the reddit link): https://old.reddit.com/r/FluxerApp/comments/1r8724q/heads_up_fluxer_has_a_big_red_flag_it_requires/
Essentially, he had plans to possibly offer commercial versions of Fluxer, but plans changed after it took off in popularity 4 months ago.