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> Currently, anyone can create an account on GitHub and without proof-of-positive-ID can apply any license to any code they choose to upload. Whether they have the right to issue this license is unknown to the user other than by direct due diligence.

A good exemplar of this from just the other day:

http://lists.gpl-violations.org/pipermail/legal/2013-July/00...

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Yes, that is a gem. With liberty, I've submitted it hoping it will also be a conversation starter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6094223

Reading one of the linked comments, it's even more interesting because the "Samsung proprietary code" looks clearly copied from the Linux kernel: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?82576-Samsung-Acci...

Sometimes I wonder if much of the corporate fear of open source is that it would slow development and restrict code reuse, since rather than just swiping the code and releasing the driver, once it's out in the open they'd also have to have endless discussion of what is and is not a derived work.

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