Frank Hecker <hec...@mozillafoundation.org> writes: > Nelson B Bolyard wrote: >> Today, I see the FSF web site talks about "copyright assignment". I don't >> know all the implications of that, but I presume that it is essentially >> a relinquishment, except that you keep your own name on the copyrighted >> work. > > One last comment on this: Typical copyright assignment agreements > transfer all rights in the code to someone else.
Note, though, that the FSF's assignment contract licenses the rights back to the contributor. You only give up ownership of the code; you can still use/modify/distribute/etc the contributed code after contributing it to the FSF. But only because they explicitly license it back. (How that interacts with the extent to which the contributed code is a derivative of GPL or LGPL code sounds like an interesting question.) -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
