the beginning of GENTOO going closed source?

From: cheese66666 (cheese66666_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: 31 Dec 2003 04:14:26 -0800

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/copyright-assignment.xml

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| Our code repository also contains many build scripts called
| "ebuilds." [..] ebuilds contain the knowledge necessary to build
| this operating system, the operating system itself is composed of
| freely-available parts [..] It's important for our community to be
| able to protect against misuse of our code. The best way to do this
| is to, as much as reasonably possible, assign copyrights of all
| contributed code to a single entity. [..]
|
|||
||| we require all individual contributors to Gentoo to assign copyright
||| for their contributed works to Gentoo Technlogies, Inc. by signing
||| a copyright assignment agreement.
|||

What's that all about?

Wkr,
  concerned gentoo user

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