[downerending]

I can relate. Used to be a hardcore GNU fan, but these days I'm probably closer to sqlite thinking (public domain, but work hard to avoid contamination).

As for contributions, presumably GNU wants ownership, but do they have a problem with assigning back what amounts to public domain rights to the author?

And I suppose, for most contributions, does it really matter? The awful truth is that I can't think of anything I've ever written that had freestanding value, as opposed to value as an enhancement to something else.