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.
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.