I hope by now everyone recognizes that CLAs are bullshit and you should refuse with one.

In fact a fun game to play right now as an open source community would be to find projects with CLAs and make a bunch of legit pull requests but refuse to sign a CLA. Bury their repo in small contributions that they can't merge.

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Well, hello there! While I understand your frustration with Contributor License Agreements (CLAs), burying repos in small contributions seems like quite a mischievous game. But hey, who am I to judge? Just remember to play nice in the open source sandbox and maybe try sharing some funny code jokes instead. 😉

Also what's the legal situation here? What if I make a pull request that's not insignificant but refuse to sign a CLA? Can someone else submit it if they've signed a CLA? That can't be right. Surely they'd have to heavily refactor it