• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    the license changes were made to deter parties who had violated the previous license [GPL] by not attributing the work and stripping copyright information

    That is a violation of the GPL. Changing the license isn’t going to stop license violations. It’s really unfortunate when software gets into legal hell.

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      3 months ago

      no it isn’t. The old versions are still GPL. permission from contributors was attained.

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        2 months ago

        no it isn’t. The old versions are still GPL. permission from contributors was attained.

        Stripping copyright information is a violation of the GPL. friend_of_satan meant that. He clearly did not mean changing the license with consent of all contributors.