For any company which hires peoples specifically to work on OSS projects, or who specifically allow people to work on them (either off-hours or on-hours, ala Google), having them sign a CCLA is a no-brainer.
For those whose companies are "anti-OSS" or who barely tolerate their employees working on OSS, a CCLA would be nice, but unrealistic to expect. In those cases, the employee must be *extremely* careful to know and understand what is and is not allowed within their employee agreement. A typical example is that if you are provided by a laptop by your company, you take it on the plane with you, and develop some code or patch using it, the company could reasonably claim that it was developed using company resources and is therefore the property of the company.
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