You should never sign a CLA unless you're getting paid to.

It depends what you're getting out of it. I've signed CLAs because it was more convenient for me to have my PR upstreamed rather than maintaining a fork.

	▲	direwolf20 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I should have been more nuanced: signing a CLA is the same as releasing your code under MIT license: if your code is worth anything, a large powerful entity will steal it and claim it as their own.