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The license mentions that all previous licenses are revoked. Is that even possible to enforce? If I had forked a prior version with a different license, couldn’
by aspenmayer 5y ago
The license mentions that all previous licenses are revoked. Is that even possible to enforce? If I had forked a prior version with a different license, couldn’t I just use that instead?
Or better yet, a different product entirely?
Cool idea though. Reminds me of Google Desktop.
- hansvm 5y ago(not a lawyer) It depends. Some jurisdictions give copyright holders more power than you might expect, if you used the software under the new license you might implicitly agree to such a term, and some licenses explicitly give the copyright holder revocation privileges. In a lot of places most open source licenses can't be revoked on a whim unless the person using them violated the terms. It's pretty common for communities to fork an old version when the parent project does something wonky with the license.