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Re:Diaspora Considering Abandoning AGPL? by rcfox on Friday September 17, 2010 @06:45PM (#1703081)
Ignoring the hearsay for a moment:

Indicating copyright ownership has nothing to do with the licensing. The people who wrote the software own the copyright. Being AGPL, or whatever else, defines how other people can use the software.

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Re:Diaspora Considering Abandoning AGPL? by jancona on Friday September 17, 2010 @08:18PM (#1703293)
The question about Diaspora is about their requiring assignment of the copyright. That is, the project requires contributors to give away their ownership of what they wrote, so that the project owns it and can re-license at will.
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