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Most of the time this is solved by

* requiring code to be assigned by the author to a single person/company, consolidating ownership

* building your entire base on friendly licensed software (3BSD) and ducking any GPL

So it’s very easy to say, for example, that the Mozilla Foundation owns all the code that makes up Firefox - they won’t accept your pull request otherwise.



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