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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by rmc on Sunday February 27, 2011 @12:21PM (#2268258)
You relinquish copyright of your contributions to the project as a whole.

That's called 'Copyright assignment' assignment and is not the norm in FOSS. You usually have to release your work under a suitable open source copyright licence, but you still retain ownership of the code.

Most of the large corporate sponsors of open source require copyright assignment. Most small one-man-on-guthub projects don't.

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