Absolutely similar, but don't underestimate the friction this introduces, and the number of potential contributors you cut off by doing this. Getting corporate

Absolutely similar, but don't underestimate the friction this introduces, and the number of potential contributors you cut off by doing this. Getting corporate sign-off for such things can take months while it wends its way through legal departments and upper management. Many people won't even bother, it's such a hassle. Last one I did was for Apache. It took at least six months. Previously did several for GNU which were much quicker (in a different company).