Agreed. Cygwin was the only surviving project arising out of Red Hat to use copyright assignment, Red Hat having maintained Cygnus's late-1990s-vintage copyright assignment policy without substantive change until now. (The text of the Cygwin copyright assignment is actually adapted from the form used by the FSF in the 1990s.)
However the project will not be adopting an "inbound=outbound" or DCO contribution policy until 2020. This is because Red Has some continuing license-related obligations to existing "buyout license" customers that the mere license change to LGPL does not address. In 2020 the last of those obligations will have ended.
What the project will be doing going forward, until 2020, is requiring contributions to be made under the 2-clause BSD license. It's a sort of symbolic change during that interim period, although the end of the red tape around contributing to Cygwin will be generally appreciated.
However the project will not be adopting an "inbound=outbound" or DCO contribution policy until 2020. This is because Red Has some continuing license-related obligations to existing "buyout license" customers that the mere license change to LGPL does not address. In 2020 the last of those obligations will have ended.
What the project will be doing going forward, until 2020, is requiring contributions to be made under the 2-clause BSD license. It's a sort of symbolic change during that interim period, although the end of the red tape around contributing to Cygwin will be generally appreciated.