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How can they change the license without getting the approval of everyone who contributed code? It doesn't look like they required contributors to sign CLAs.
by ggreer 8y ago
How can they change the license without getting the approval of everyone who contributed code? It doesn't look like they required contributors to sign CLAs.
- village-idiot 8y agoMIT allows sublicensing explicitly. It's why you can include MIT licensed code in proprietary software, something that the GPL is designed to prevent. What you can't do is retroactively apply this to old code. The named entities could use older versions of the code, but in newer versions the new license would apply.
- negativegate 8y agoWhat stops someone from forking it and re-sublicensing it back to vanilla MIT?
- village-idiot 8y agoIANAL, but I believe that a sub-license has to be more restrictive than the parent license.
- sieabah 8y agoNothing :D https://github.com/LernaOpenSource/LernaOpenSource https://github.com/LernaOpenSource/LernaOpenSource