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Google does the same thing[0] whenever you contribute code to any of their open source projects.

[0] https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual



One difference is that the Qt source code is also covered by the KDE Free Qt agreement (linked in a sibling comment), which basically acts as a poison pill to ensure that no future owner of Qt can pull an Oracle and close off development.

For this reason, it's my opinion that the Qt CLA is much, much, less onerous than other CLAs, like Google's or Canonical's, in the sense of how much control is actually given away.




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