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I tried reading through it and I don't understand completely if they reserve the right to relicense in a way that is against the interest of contributor.
They say that the contributor retains the copyright and can do whatever they want with the code they contributed, which is good, they also say that they can sublicense your contributions, which, as far as I know, means they couldn't make it more permissive, but only more restrictive, at least that is the case with Creative Commons