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Those are good points. Is there any way to have an open source license that protects history?

• hakre 5y ago
  None that I can think of. History of projects is by the people who do/participate. If you want to remove the right to modify the project (which includes the history if shared as common on Github) it is not open source (free/libre) software any longer. In this case such a license wouldn't be needed either honestly. There would be no win with it, b/c it would have been similarly easily violated and that's it. Don't hope for a strong "legal" thing here, it won't help to solve these kind of problems (IMHO). And for the license troll: Instead declare the repository on Github as Database Work. Put it under a proprietary license. Github _might_ falsely read a license from a software stored in that database as the database's license, but you can easily leave an "all rights reserved" in the project description that is more prominently visible than that.