On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 5:45 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Assigning copyright to Google is a way around that. They own your work, > and then they re-license it under whatever license those two projects > use. That's the default. Unless otherwise stated; you retain the copyright while contributing code to open source projects. Generally when open source projects want to change license they have to get the agreement from the majority of copyright holders. Some projects do ask you to give away your copyright, but I'm not comfortable with that. If I want to contribute my code with GPLv2, that's the license I want. If a project I contribute to wants to switch to GPLv3, then they have to remove my code (or do something illegal). So I see nothing wrong with Google owning the copyright and controlling under which license(s) their code is distributed. In fact, I would see something wrong with the opposite; them giving away their copyright. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
