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You do not need to give anyone special permission to sell your contribution, everyone in the world is equally entitled to make commercial use of (including outright sale of) free and open source software; without this it is not free or open source.

The only purpose of a CLA like this is to provide for a future where the software can be made non-free again.

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No. A license to copyrighted code does not confer the same privileges as holding copyright to that code.

Public domain is closer to “equally entitled”.

An open source license, by definition, entitles the recipient to commercial use.

https://xkcd.com/1731/

But not any commercial use, only that which is covered by the license.

Whereas the copyright holder has broader rights.

So a licensed user is not “equally entitled”.

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