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Sep 27, 2022 at 11:46 comment added IntegralPilot @MadHatter Thank you for your reply, I found it very helpful!
Sep 27, 2022 at 11:46 vote accept IntegralPilot
Sep 26, 2022 at 15:24 comment added IMSoP @MadHatter True, the requirement isn't quite as strict as I wrote there; I still think the point is an important one though: the proposed license wording doesn't acknowledge the possibility of the relicensing breaching someone else's copyright. I would expect a legally drafted license to list much clearer obligations and liabilities placed on contributors who were providing code they did not own the copyright to.
Sep 26, 2022 at 11:25 comment added MadHatter @IMSoP whilst that is true for copyleft licences, it is thought not to be true for the permissive licences.
Sep 26, 2022 at 11:15 comment added IMSoP Worth adding on the CLA part that contributors can't relicense "no matter what license you got it under" - they can only relicense contributions for which they are the copyright owner. If I could take code that was licensed to me under the GPL and donate it to someone else under an MIT license, I could just play shell games and "donate" it to myself, avoiding the requirements of the GPL.
Sep 25, 2022 at 19:41 comment added MadHatter @PyRulez absolutely, but you still can't stop any of them passing it on under Apache2.
Sep 24, 2022 at 16:50 comment added Christopher King Note also that if your the sole copyright holder, you can choose on a case-by-case basis who gets the apache license, if you prefer.
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Sep 24, 2022 at 7:53 history answered MadHatter CC BY-SA 4.0