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As "the legal council in question", this is actually not the problem at all :)

There are actually remarkably simpler problem than this:

For starters,

Everyone in the world, using go, would now have to reproduce two copyright notices, instead of one.

If they messed up, intel could sue them :)

Exporting that liability to the rest of the world would be irresponsible.

In any case, it's not just about mixed licenses. In a good open source project, everyone contributes on the same terms. Period.



You are unlikely to read this at this point, but I was going through my old comments and just saw your reply.

In any case, I was commenting on the purpose of the CLA in general. I believe my comment still applies accurately to that.

As far as the specific issue goes, I agree that everyone should be contributing under the same license.




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