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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: Seeking input from developers: glibc copyright assignment policy.
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> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 15:59:03 +0100
> From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
> Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, fweimer@redhat.com, siddhesh@gotplt.org,
> 	eliz@gnu.org
> 
> > The grant back in section 1 (d) of the FSF's copyright assignment
> > gives control to the developer who can then decide who gets to use the
> > code and under what terms, but the developer cannot limit how the FSF
> > distributes and uses the code, which is under a free license, most
> > likely the GPLv3 or later.
> 
> a copyright assignment cannot possibly "give control"
> to the developer: there can be multiple projects that
> require assignment (or even just a statement from the
> owner) and the developer cannot contribte the same
> code to those (you can only assign ownership once).

AFAIK, that's not true: the developer _can_ assign the copyright to
more than one project.