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MIT 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
by village-idiot 8y ago
MIT 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