brilliantee

> There is a mandatory CLA you must agree to. Importantly, it does not transfer copyright ownership to Google or anyone else; it simply gives us the right to safely redistribute and use your changes.

[Emphasis from the source]

Does this make it possible for the jj organization to make the implementation closed-source and proprietary, and abandon the open source version, taking all the contributed changes from volunteers and other organizations with them?

Git had a very small initial implementation, while jj is under development for years and is large. If jj is not too complex to have multiple implementations, why have new implementations not sprung up by now? Is it the Google CLA, or are too few people using jj, or is jj too complex, or some mixture of all of the above?

The Google CLA is still required as of 2026, which I find strange. https://lwn.net/Articles/958805/

> Second, I thought about contributing a fix to that table, and then I saw the contributing requirements:

> > Contributor License Agreement

> Nope, not happening. Nobody should adopt this until it's been freed from that requirement, either by getting the project to remove it or by establishing a version of the project that takes contributions without that requirement.