Apparently, it's a good idea to "collect a contributor license agreement
(CLA) from each person who works on the project, explicitly granting the
project the right to use that person's contributions."
http://producingoss.com/en/copyright-assignment.html
Not the same as a transfer of copyright, mind you.
See also issue331 and issue176. It may be good to kill several birds
with the same stone here, sending out requests for CLA, and also giving
users the option to do copyright transfer, making it clear that we do
not require the latter.
I'm not a fan of this kind of thing either, but it seems better to
attend to this kind of stuff sooner rather than later.
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