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Re:IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view by richardfontana on Saturday August 05, 2023 @03:15AM (#37009756)
Only one historical exception: Cygwin, basically inertia from the Cygnus acquisition.

Maybe more significantly, Red Hat has only made limited use of CLAs in the past and hasn't used any CLAs for many years now. It's basically corporate policy.

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Re:IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view by atgreen on Saturday August 05, 2023 @06:53AM (#37010816)
There was one other Cygnus-era one... libgcj, the gcj runtime library. However, Red Hat assigned copyright to the FSF in exchange for them adopting a more permissive license for the GNU Classpath project; one that was eventually selected by Sun when they open-sourced Java.
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Re:IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view by richardfontana on Saturday August 05, 2023 @11:34AM (#37013039)
Ah, that is slightly before my time:)
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