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A contributor license agreement that does anything besides put your code under the project's standard OSS license is a huge red flag.

I took a bit of umbrage with LineageOS for this.

CyanogenMod required a CLA to assign them copyright to Cyanogen Inc, only for them to basically kill the project. They forked it as LineageOS only to still require a CLA.

IMO the anger people direct at source available licences would be better directed at CLAs. They're what hands the power away.

Don't contribute to projects with CLAs people without reading them carefully and understanding what can happen! Then you won't be surprised if a project is relicensed because you know you signed an agreement to let them do that.

Mhm, so all the contributors to Redis ever have signed the Contributor License Agreement? It's certainly possible, but I'd be a little surprised.