copyright assignment

[Larry Meadows <lfm at pgroup dot com>]

----- Forwarded message from Geoffrey Noer -----
[...]
(http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32).  Note that if your changes
are more than a few lines, you will probably need to send in a
copyright assignment form and a disclaimer from your employer.  (As
you would have to do for a code contribution to the Free Software
Foundation).
[...]
----- End of forwarded message from Geoffrey Noer -----

That's very interesting, actually. The GPL says that if I distribute
modified binaries, then I must also make the modified source code
available. But you're saying that I also need to send a copyright
assignment form and a disclaimer with this modified source code?

Doesn't seem quite right to me... by modifying the source code I
already agreed that I had no copyright, by virtue of the GPL.

I can see the desire for such a thing, but it seems to discourage
people from contributing patches and seems unnecessary.

lfm
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