Seeking input from developers: glibc copyright assignment policy.

[Florian Weimer]

* Siddhesh Poyarekar:

> On 6/25/21 5:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
>>> Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
>>> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:13:57 +0530
>>>
>>> ... actually I should correct myself based on Florian's comment.  The
>>> copyright ownership does get transferred to the assignee and the
>>> assigner is granted back an unhindered, unlimited *use* license.
>> "Use" that includes the rights to distribute under any conditions.
>> How is this different from ownership?
>
> Nope, use and distribute are two different things.

“Use” is a technical term for exploiting rights under copyright.  Such
rights include making copies and distributing them.

Thanks,
Florian