Posted Apr 11, 2011 16:59 UTC (Mon) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
Parent article: Project Harmony decloaks
One positive thing about these agreements: they only offer "all-permissive license" or "copyright assignment with all-permissive license back to the contributor", both of which allow the contributor to do as they wish with their own code; they don't offer an agreement which restricts the contributor's use of their own code.
On the other hand, this does indeed seem like it conveys a lot of legitimacy to the more restrictive copyright transfer agreements, by presenting them as variations on more reasonable options.