Code written by the wrong people

[Stefan Monnier]

>> FWIW, getting copyright agreements signed is not always as hard as
>> some people think.
> As far as I can tell if you work at IBM it is nearly impossible.

The two statements are not mutually exclusive.

> Yes,  they understand open source and support contributing thereto.
> But "giving  away" IP to which they have a claim?  Ain't gonna happen!

"grep IBM copyright.list" on fencepost.gnu.org suggests that it's at
least not completely impossible (of course, it doesn't mean it's easy
either).


        Stefan