Ask HN: Do you stay away from Contributor Licence Agreements?

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  • LeanQt

    LeanQt is a stripped-down Qt version easy to build from source and to integrate with an application.

  • > Then do you (developers on HN) stay away from CLAs?

    Depends on the CLA, but generally I do stay away. E.g. I never checked in anything to the official Qt repository because I don't agree the the CLA by QTC. Instead I finally made my own fork and call it LeanQt and LeanCreator (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/leanqt/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/leancreator/).

    The "weird licence which is basically a modified version of the MIT licence but with a clause that prevents competitive usage" is likely not even recognized as a true "open source" license.

    > would it be possible to relicense a fork of Polaris to MIT (removing the Shopify clause?)

    Likely not, because only the IP owner can determine who can do what with their IP under what license. If you use the software of an IP owner under a specific licence, you usually don't have the rights to re-license their work, even if you modified it.

  • LeanCreator

    LeanCreator is a stripped-down version of Qt Creator, easy to build from source on all platforms supported by LeanQt and using BUSY instead of qmake.

  • > Then do you (developers on HN) stay away from CLAs?

    Depends on the CLA, but generally I do stay away. E.g. I never checked in anything to the official Qt repository because I don't agree the the CLA by QTC. Instead I finally made my own fork and call it LeanQt and LeanCreator (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/leanqt/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/leancreator/).

    The "weird licence which is basically a modified version of the MIT licence but with a clause that prevents competitive usage" is likely not even recognized as a true "open source" license.

    > would it be possible to relicense a fork of Polaris to MIT (removing the Shopify clause?)

    Likely not, because only the IP owner can determine who can do what with their IP under what license. If you use the software of an IP owner under a specific licence, you usually don't have the rights to re-license their work, even if you modified it.

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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