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> As the copyright holder Facebook, or its successors, can change the license for zstd at any time. This is wrong? Once something is GPL, it's always GPL. http
by croemer 4y ago
> As the copyright holder Facebook, or its successors, can change the license for zstd at any time.
This is wrong? Once something is GPL, it's always GPL. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/98777/347066 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/98777/347066
- mort96 4y agoIt's a bit more complicated than that. Yes, the code that's out right now under the GPL will always be licensed under the GPL. But Facebook can at any time change the license of the zstd project, meaning all future releases will be under a different license. There will be an opportunity to fork the code base pre license change, but those forks are always risky and there's a very large change that the ecosystem won't end up with a de facto standard zstd fork.