No, that is not how it works. IDA owns the copyright. Period. We should however make a decision to extend the right to the contributor to do whatever she wants with it (the contribution). That right is however not transferable to another party. To complicate matters even more you can not completely give away copyright under Swedish law, but that does not interfere much with matters.
/ Martin Nilsson (Fake Build Master)
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2002-11-11 09:20: Subject: pike.el
This is how I see it: Every contributor retains copyright to a copy of his contributed code post RIS, but the parts written before IDA belongs only to Pike@IDA. So the best thing to do would probably be to get IDA to release a copy to FSF (and at the same time make sure it can be done again without the fuss), or failing that get permission from RIS to release one of the old copies.
/ Peter Bortas