Usually the way it works is the company requires copyright assignment to them.

coldpie · on July 28, 2014

Right. The owner could also refuse outside contributions, or perhaps there simply haven't been any outside contributions.

infinite8s · on July 28, 2014

Well, since the project was just released as opensource, presumably all work on it so far has been by employees of Aerospike (who automatically grant copyright to their employer by virtue of the work-made-for-hire exception).