Clarified that copyright assignment is encouraged, but not mandatory.
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@ -244,17 +244,24 @@ everyone is the hero by Will on "Why AGPLv3 and CC0":
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.. _CC0 v1: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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Why copyright assignment?
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Why (non-mandatory) copyright assignment?
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Will Kahn-Greene on "Why copyright assignment?":
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Chris Webber on "Why copyright assignment?":
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GNU MediaGoblin is a GNU project with the copyrights held by the
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FSF. Like other GNU projects, we require copyright assignment to
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the FSF which gives the FSF the legal ability to defend the
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AGPL-covered status of the software and distribute it.
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GNU MediaGoblin is a GNU project with non-mandatory but heavily
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encouraged copyright assignment to the FSF. Most, if not all, of
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the core contributors to GNU MediaGoblin will have done a
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copyright assignment, but unlike some other GNU projects, it isn't
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required here. We think this is the best choice for GNU
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MediaGoblin: it ensures that the Free Software Foundation may
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protect the software by enforcing the AGPL if the FSF sees fit,
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but it also means that we can immediately merge in changes from a
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new contributor. It also means that some significant non-FSF
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contributors might also be able to enforce the AGPL if seen fit.
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This is important to us because it guarantees that this software
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we're working so hard on will be available to everyone and will
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survive us. As long as someone is interested in using it and/or
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working on it, it will live on.
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Again, assignment is not mandatory, but it is heavily encouraged,
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even incentivized: significant contributors who do a copyright
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assignment to the FSF are eligible to have a unique goblin drawing
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produced for them by the project's main founder, Christopher Allan
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Webber. See :ref:`contributinghowto` for details.
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