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If it is MIT, you can relicense, so effectively you have control of the copyright.
by true_religion 8y ago
If it is MIT, you can relicense, so effectively you have control of the copyright.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoIt's as if everyone hates Microsoft enough to believe they have different rights under the MIT license. MIT is as permissive as it gets, if Microsoft wanted to they could of released VS Code as a close sourced but free (as in money) product, and NOBODY not even GitHub would of been able to stop them either!
- bb88 8y agoYes, but then there would be two versions of Electron, the public version and the private version MS would keep internally. This would mean that you'd have to spend work re-merging your changes back with the main branch when a new version of Electron came out. Now there's just one version, and it looks like MS controls the copyright to it. And that means their patches could come first before others.
- bb88 8y agoNitpick: I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but I thought I'd clarify. The owner of the copyright can relicense. Third parties can use the code to the license, but cannot relicense the code itself. While MIT is very permissive, it doesn't give you permission to change the license, nor does it grant you the copyright to the underlying code.