I've just been reading back on the entire history of OpenOffice.org and its forks, from 2010 on.
tl;dr CLAs are just utterly toxic. Any company offering a CLA should be considered equivalent to "We are malicious bastards trying to fuck you up", because they literally have no other purpose. If the company doesn't mean that, then it is too stupid to talk to.
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Date: 2013-06-28 11:05 pm (UTC)tl;dr CLAs are just utterly toxic. Any company offering a CLA should be considered equivalent to "We are malicious bastards trying to fuck you up", because they literally have no other purpose. If the company doesn't mean that, then it is too stupid to talk to.