On Jul 20, 2017, at 23:17, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

I think you might misunderstand the nature and the essence of the
copyright assignment: it doesn't in any way diminish the author's
rights on his/her code.  Here's a direct citation from

https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2014/spring/copyright-assignment-at-the-fsf

Maybe such explanations should be made more visible on the FSF page.

I think they should be added to this page:

 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html