Caleb, Let me explain you my limited knowledge of this agreement. It means that there is a shared copyright for the contributed code. Red Hat wants to have the ability to do stuff with the contributed code (such as for instance change the license to GPL or APL) without having to ask the formal agreement from each contributor. If this contributor agreement would not be there and if you (or your company) would not agree to e.g. change the license to APL than this would not be possible with LGPL. Btw, you yourself still have the right to distribute your contributed code under another (whether commercial or open source) license than LGPL. I hope this helps (and that it's somewhat correct ;-) ) Cheers, Koen View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4248352#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...