> Troubling indeed, but this might just be an overzealous manager. > IBM, like other corporations, has made significant technical > contributions to GCC over the years, for example the scheduler and > the vectorizer, and thus has assigned the copyright of these > contributions to the FSF.
Yes, as long as the employee is doing it as part of their work for IBM, which was the case in your examples. What's never been OK for IBM are their employees doing software development "on their own time" because they've taken the position that such doesn't exist.
