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Have we ever seen an *official* response as to why this is legally impossible or philosophically undesired?

I just had a situation where I had a game jam submission with two other Admin/Contributors. One of the other Contributors made changes to the game page while I was asleep - they changed the name of the game, the URL, the cover page... all while the game was still under judgement. I do not trust this person to be able to make Admin changes anymore, but I do not want to remove them as a Contributor because they deserve to be credited for the aspect of the work that they did. I'd have to take credit away from them and that could escalate matters in a way that I can't justify.

We need non-Admin Contributors. I should not be forced to make this choice between security and integrity.

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redonihunter4 days ago(+2)

I do not know about any official statements, and I agree that this is strangle configured and should be overhauled somehow.

But if you ask for a possible explanation, imho, it stems from the joint copyright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_authorship

A more mundane explanation would be, this feature is just not implemented and designed well for things like joint authorship and is from a time when Itch did not have over a million projects, but only a few thousand. Having all authors to be admins at least has the benefit, that everyone can configure the page. If the main admin vanishes, the project is bricked. And for volatile joined efforts of amateurs, that is gonna happen a lot in comparison. The professional approach would be to just create a company and have the company be the publisher account. But amateurs do not create companies to publish a jam game.

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