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They can do that regardless of the license since they own the copyright. As long as they do not accept external contributions or require a CLA it does not matte
by alexvoda 9y ago
They can do that regardless of the license since they own the copyright.
As long as they do not accept external contributions or require a CLA it does not matter what license they offer, they can still make future versions proprietary.
- jhasse 9y agoTrue, that's why there needs to be a distinction between "GPL" and "GPL with CLA".
- zer0tonin 9y ago> they do not accept external contributions They do tho.
- Matumio 9y agoEven if they accept contributions normally (e.g. under the same license), the above licences will allow them (or anyone else) to make a proprietary fork.