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> From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
> Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:13:57 +0530
> 
> ... actually I should correct myself based on Florian's comment.  The 
> copyright ownership does get transferred to the assignee and the 
> assigner is granted back an unhindered, unlimited *use* license.

"Use" that includes the rights to distribute under any conditions.
How is this different from ownership?