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I will follow up on that, it was not the case even quite recently. If they really have rewritten all code, then great - I have no problem with this!

• pxc 3y ago
  Replacing code whose license you don't want is definitely a fair-and-square way to manage a project and change the overall terms under which you can distribute it. (As it happens, that tactic is often essential to efforts to open-source formerly proprietary projects, too.)
  • therealpygon 3y ago
    *Provided that the replacement is not simply a rewritten version of the same code that achieves the same result through overwhelmingly similar methodology.
    • jolux 3y ago
      The function of code is explicitly not protected by copyright and the breadth of this exemption was clarified and expanded by Google vs Oracle.