http://collective.square-enix.com/news/32/first-eidos-ips-made-available-via-square-enix-collective
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/02/17/square-enix-wants-developers-to-pitch-ideas-for-gex-fear-effect-and-anachronox
Outsourcing titles? Hmm...can't say I've seen that done before to my knowledge. So they're basically relinquishing the copyrights of those titles under the agreement that the devs let them publish the games?