Owen Shepherd wrote:
Copyright assignment is, and always has been, orthogonal to GPL licensing. The FSF requires that you assign copyright to them for any non-trivial contributions to their projects (Presumably so they have the ability to handle legal actions, such as infringement lawsuits, for the entirety of the code base)
What Owen and Kyle said. Also, note that some other projects require copyright assignment as a condition of accepting contributions. For example, Sun required this on several Sun-sponsored open source prokects. The two basic motives for requiring copyright assignment are to have a single copyright holder for the purposes of enforcing the copyright (the FSF case) and to be able to relicense the entire work under a different license (the MySQL AB case).
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