It legally belongs to the contributors, who retain the copyright for their contributions except in case of a CLA - which in the case of Audacity was added later

It legally belongs to the contributors, who retain the copyright for their contributions except in case of a CLA - which in the case of Audacity was added later, and never comprehensively covered all of the code written over the past 20 years of the project's life. It also philosophically belongs to the users, as part of the social contract of FOSS. I strongly object to CLAs for this reason, and encourage you not to contribute to projects which use them. It is a clear signal that the upstream maintainers of a project intend to leverage the FOSS community to build up the product and then take it away from them to build a nonfree project instead. I wrote about something similar here: https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/19/Elasticsearch-does-not-belong-to-Elastic.html https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/19/Elasticsearch-does-not-be...