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Re:MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL by jrochkind1 on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @09:00PM (#5903057)
>> 1. You're not "giving up" the rights to your contribution, you are sharing the copyright...

> Sorry, but - as a general rule, this is false, at least in common law jurisdictions.

It can work either way: It depends on the particular Contributor License Agreement being used, and what it says.

Some actually transfer copyright, some just grant the project entity a perpetual non-exclusive license to all rights.

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