To a company ownership is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether it contains trade secrets and that is often only proven if an employee worked at their company before

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dgellow a day ago | parent [-]

We are talking about Debian, a free software that cares a lot about the licensing of its packages. The licensing and authorship is an essential element of the project

	▲	alightsoul a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, because they want to avoid trade secret lawsuits is what I understand? Computer generated output including code is in the public domain according to the us copyright office, so licensing and authorship are only relevant due to trade secrets is what I understand