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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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