> when you're contributing to GPL software, you don't need your employer's permission for it to be upstreamed. Yes you do. Except the permission in this case i

> when you're contributing to GPL software, you don't need your employer's permission for it to be upstreamed. Yes you do. Except the permission in this case is "permission to use the library" in the first place, which is a much higher bar than permission to upstream changes to a permissively-licensed library because using a GPL library has much farther-reaching implications than merely contributing changes back.