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I must admit I find the development of Kubernetes extremely well organized fir the sheer size of the project.

Google did a great job starting the Kubernetes community, but they then contributed the project to CNCF (which Google also helped launch). Google remains the top contributor to Kubernetes, but even as their contributions remain substantial, their % of the total contributions is going down, due to the large number of other organizations now backing Kubernetes.

https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/8/companies-statistics-reposi...

(Disclosure: I'm executive director of CNCF. We also build that DevStats tool.)

I think CLA is pretty standard for any open source project. I think the first one I ever signed was for Emacs. Emacs has done pretty well and the CLA doesn't seem to be putting many people off from contributing.

I imagine that it makes any potential litigation or dispute much simpler. Even if the license is FOSS, any sort of litigation could have hundreds or thousands of parties involved.

I think the point is, they don't have to be.