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by gary-kim 1986 days ago
DCOs don't give copyright ownership to anyone else or even any more rights to anyone else. It is simply a declaration that you have the permission to license the code you wrote under the license you're giving it for.

This article gives a nice description of the differences: https://opensource.com/article/18/3/cla-vs-dco-whats-differe...