>  "Copyright 2011, Red Hat, Inc. and/or its
> affiliates, and individual contributors by the @authors tag".


To clarify this as well. This doesn't mean a 'shared' ownership! Usually this 
wording in an OSS license is used to express that both the projects hosting and 
managing partner (Red Hat) AS WELL as the original author have _full_ rights on 
this work (the authors of course only for the part they did). 

Basically this says: Red Hat gets all rights to use this software, but the 
original author _remains_ all this rights as well!

Otherwise Red Hat could not do _anything_ without first asking _all_ 
contributors (on the very class) for allowance first ;)

So if Pete, Stuart and Jason originally wrote it and agreed to contribute this 
code, then all is well.

Of course, having the ok from Red Hat as well would make things easier - 
because then we would not need to scan all the files history to check if only 
iCLA signees have touched it.

LieGrue,
strub

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