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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
by 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 agoThe function of code is explicitly not protected by copyright and the breadth of this exemption was clarified and expanded by Google vs Oracle.