I was commenting based just on the limited info in the snippets posted. If the CTO/organization you noted it the one that owns the rights to the code, then I’d

I was commenting based just on the limited info in the snippets posted. If the CTO/organization you noted it the one that owns the rights to the code, then I’d agree that apparent authority does seem to apply here. I had read into "After DDN’s acquisition ... subsequently improperly open sourced ... without DDN’s permission" to mean that the code had been acquired from another entity, but then someone associated with that entity which no longer had any rights to the code released it as open source.