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Make the CLA a copyright assignment - #15
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Contributions become the Maintainer's, so the Project can be licensed and sold as a whole. The old text was a licence and left contributors owning their part. An exclusive licence is the fallback where an assignment isn't allowed, and moral rights aren't asserted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Makes the CLA a copyright assignment, the same change as Gryt's (Gryt-chat/.github#32). The old text said "You keep the copyright in your contribution": enough to sell commercial licences, but contributors still owned their part. Now they assign the copyright and other economic rights, with an exclusive licence as the fallback where an assignment isn't allowed, and moral rights not asserted. It also says outright that it's a donation, with no share of commercial licences.
Someone who signed the old text stays on the licence they agreed to. To have their earlier work assigned too, they'd need to sign again: this version covers contributions made before signing. The CLA action won't ask them by itself.
The signing sentence and the CLA workflow are unchanged.
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