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		ameliaquining on Oct 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open sour... We don't yet know that the SFC's new approach is going to work. The court could still reject it.

electroly on Oct 20, 2021 [–]

While true, the old approach (having a single contributor / partial owner, not necessarily an FSF-style copyright owner who owns the entire work) still doesn't require FSF copyright assignment. As an example, the Linux kernel never did copyright assignment, and the SFC has been suing over GPL violations for Linux.

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