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by adament 1283 days ago
Interestingly the FSF also requires copyright assignment for contributions to GCC, Emacs and some other GNU software.
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The FSF does appear to prefer copyright assignment over DCOs[1], but as of last year GCC contributions only require a DCO[2].

[1] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/FSF-copyright-handling [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/857791/

That is good news, thank you! And I apologize for spreading incorrect information.