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I wonder if Mozilla went through this: "It is possible that there may be Mozilla source files containing contributed code for which the copyright holders refus
by michel-slm 10y ago
I wonder if Mozilla went through this:
"It is possible that there may be Mozilla source files containing contributed code for which the copyright holders refuse to grant permission for relicensing under the MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license. In those cases we will investigate whether the situation can be resolved by someone writing new code to replace the code which cannot be relicensed. (This may require writing a complete new source file, or simply rewriting one or more portions of an existing file.)"
https://www-archive.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html#permission-not-granted https://www-archive.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html#per...
- kibwen 10y agoI have no doubt that there are projects that have rewritten code because of the hypothetical threat of imagined future legal action, but I don't actually know of real legal action that has happened because of a relicensing, and the pressing question is what sort of form that copyright claim would take (which we won't know without a dedicated prosecutor, but can probably guess at).