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> Can a MIT project be relicensed? Among more sophisticated users I don't think there's disagreement on this point. The answer is "no", if by "relicense" you
by rectang 6y ago
> Can a MIT project be relicensed?
Among more sophisticated users I don't think there's disagreement on this point. The answer is "no", if by "relicense" you mean "remove the MIT license and put in something else". You can never legitimately remove the MIT license from a file unless you're the copyright holder or their authorized agent.
Where there's less than total agreement is whether the MIT license may be subsumed by another license — e.g. the Apache License 2.0 — when an MIT licensed work is bundled within a package. Can you claim that the complete package is available "under the Apache License 2.0", omitting the fact that the licenses are actually polyglot?
The answer to that question seems to be "everybody does that" and "in practice, the legal risk seems to approach zero", but in theory should two licenses ever prove to have incompatible provisions then things could get sticky in a court case.