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For questions about contributors, and their resources and conditions. Use the collaboration tag if your question is specific to interaction between contributors.

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Does contributing to software project make it joint authorship or a collective work?

It makes a new derivative work where the contribution is copyrighted by the contributor and the original work is copyrighted by original author. … It is important to emphasize again that a contributor doesn't hold copyright to the entire derivative work but only to his/her changes to the original work. …
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Does contributing to software project make it joint authorship or a collective work?

Is it for whole software or just for the files that the contributor changed? What are the rights of the original author? What are the rights of the contributor? … I know that it is possible to require the contributor to sign Contributor License Agreement (CLA) which may obligate the contributor to do copyright assignment of the contributions to the original author …
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