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> From: siddhesh@gotplt.org (Siddhesh Poyarekar)
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 08:59:10 +0530
> 
> > Absent assurances and more information, we must assume the worst case: that
> > the all new copyrights are owned by the contributors' employers as soon as
> > the copyright assignment mandate is lifted.
> 
> But for that their assignment has to be terminated, no?  If nobody has 
> moved to do that

Actually, one contributor already did.