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Re:Aerospike goes Open Source by nl on Monday July 28, 2014 @06:57AM (#8096036)
Usually the way it works is the company requires copyright assignment to them.
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Re:Aerospike goes Open Source by coldpie on Monday July 28, 2014 @08:36AM (#8096332)
Right. The owner could also refuse outside contributions, or perhaps there simply haven't been any outside contributions.
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Re:Aerospike goes Open Source by infinite8s on Monday July 28, 2014 @08:43AM (#8096357)
Well, since the project was just released as opensource, presumably all work on it so far has been by employees of Aerospike (who automatically grant copyright to their employer by virtue of the work-made-for-hire exception).
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