Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote:
>> Ownership of the copyright is owned by whoever made the contribution, and
>> any competent version control system will give you the list of contributions
>> (and therefore contributors). If a contribution was made in terms of the
>> GPL, then permission would need to be sought from everyone who has made a
>> contribution before it could be released under a different license.

> Contributed code to MySQL AB MUST be assigned copyright to MySQL AB.

Yeah, MySQL AB and successors have been very careful to ensure that they
have air-tight ownership of that code.  I've been asked for copyright
assignments for four-line patches :-(

                        regards, tom lane

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