At first, I was surprised by this. If IBM wants to use 100% IBM developed and owned open source code, then the licence of the original project is irrelevant.
However, the use of a copyleft licence for the project leaves open the possibility that it includes code from a copyleft project authored by someone else.
Was the point of the approval process to ensure that contributions had not come from anywhere other than IBM?
However, the use of a copyleft licence for the project leaves open the possibility that it includes code from a copyleft project authored by someone else.
Was the point of the approval process to ensure that contributions had not come from anywhere other than IBM?