&gt; <i>Your typical corporate IP lawyer might feel queasy about the collective copyright aspect, but so much of the open source world works this way now... they can suffer in their jocks.</i><p>This is a bad attitude if you want buy-in from large organizations. If you&#x27;re not worried about that, no problem, but if buy-in is your goal (and I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s Apple&#x27;s goal here) you can&#x27;t just tell potential contributors to &quot;suffer in their jocks.&quot;