> A successful open-source project is also about building a community of third-party contributors. Not necessarily. Depends on your goals. You might want to fr

> A successful open-source project is also about building a community of third-party contributors. Not necessarily. Depends on your goals. You might want to free up your software because it's the right thing to do and it guarantees your customers have a way out should should your business ever fail. You might scare away a few contributors by requiring copyright assignments so you can sell GPL exceptions, but the whole idea that you should free your software so you'll get more contributors is (1) sometimes false as it is in the present case, and (2) part of the campaign slogans that OSI made when they tried to rebrand free software as "open source".