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		throwaway43423 on May 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Codespaces CLA's are imposed by companies, not licenses. I'm quire sure that companies with OSS projects under GPL licenses would still want external contributors to certify that the code they contribute is theirs to contribute and can legally be licensed as GPL.

pabs3 on May 7, 2020 [–]

Indeed, there is the Developer Certificate of Origin for that:

https://developercertificate.org/

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