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The Mozilla committer agreement is not a CLA as I understand the term - it does not assign copyright to Mozilla, copyright is retained by the original author. The purpose of the document is to assert that those contributing code have the legal authority to do so. In Rust's case, those with review power are the gatekeepers responsible for ensuring the provenance of the code.

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> it does not assign copyright to Mozilla

This is common to many CLAs (sane ones, at least). The Go CLA (really the Google CLA[1]) also does not assign copyright to the Go project, it gives them a license to "reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works"

[1] https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual

CLA = Contributor License Agreement

No license agreement should be assigning copyright.

IE All CLA's should be licenses, not assignments.

Any project with a copyright assignment doesn't have a CLA, they have a copyright assignment. :)

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