Not sure what the modern take is, but that's where I suggest that ownership is decided by the owner. There's no enforcement to reclaim possession of those copies and, you can only try to tell me I don't "own" my copy of amethyst. But you'd need to convince every other Nostr client dev to tell me the same about their clients. And I'd have to delete or mail back my copies to denounce ownership. As you can see, it's unlikely. So there is no retained ownership except in the hypothetical, legal sense.
No one can remove the ownership of freely distributed, digital material from the recipients without extreme tech authoritarianism, or crime.
This is why most digital media (licensed or not) is freely distributed online with few repercussions.
I can't claim I created Amethyst and that I own every copy.
I can claim that I own a copy of Amethyst.
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