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Not a lawyer. Reading the former license would make sense. But I would be very surprised if any mainstream open source license can be revoked. https://www.apa
by frantzmiccoli 6y ago
Not a lawyer.
Reading the former license would make sense. But I would be very surprised if any mainstream open source license can be revoked.
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 was the license of EdgeFS if I believe in Google's cached result. There is no mention of a time limit or withdrawal possibility.
Some jurisdictions may restrict my conclusion because they don't allow authors to renounce all their rights - to put something in the public domain for example. But giving an open source license is like selling one, you can not just roll back six years later "please give me this back, I don't want this to have happened"
Plus, if EdgeFS has/had external contribution, changing the license of the project without prior allowance from other authors is an infringement of they copyright.