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by viggity 4334 days ago
Copyright isn't assigned to the tool owner, it is assigned to the person who created the work. I use Visual Studio, that doesn't make the code I write owned by Microsoft even they "own" Visual Studio. Bad analogy, but you get the point.
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Actually, I think it's a very good analogy.

Here's another. If I leave my laptop running Visual Studio out and a monkey bangs on the keyboard to make a program (by accident, just as with this photo), I don't own the copyright to that program.

What if the monkey just press F8 and build it and that is the version you release?
You do if its your monkey!