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Only if you accept contributions without a license grant CLA.

And this is why I think people who love Software Freedom should think twice about signing a CLA for their copyleft licensed contributions. [1]

inbound=outbound license terms is a good norm for FOSS. Why should a software vendor play by different rules than everyone else when it comes to things like copyleft compliance?

[1] https://meshedinsights.com/2021/06/14/legally-ignoring-the-l...

From a pragmatic perspective, it is much easier to enforce an open source license with a lawsuit if you own 100% of it.

This is true. The question to me is: does the party to whom you give the rights and authority subscribe to community-oriented FOSS license compliance principles? [1]

[1] https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...

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