Ask HN: Are GitHub pull-requests governed by the original repository license?

Post by detaro » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 11:37 AM UTC

ageitgey wrote: post #4

In the US, you automatically have copyright over code you create yourself (assuming there's 'authorship' to make it something deserving of copyright). Sending someone a PR doesn't mean you lose your copyright. You end up in a murky area where the norms of OSS are that your contribution is now part of the package, but they don't have clear ownership over the copyright of all the code in the repo. This is exactly why m…