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I think where they are coming from is that the copyright holder has the power to pick any license, multiple licenses, or make up a license. So they can give you

I think where they are coming from is that the copyright holder has the power to pick any license, multiple licenses, or make up a license. So they can give you rights that the GPL doesn't, as they are the copyright holder. IANAL so I don't know exactly how it would be made legally binding, but they do have that power.

flanked-evergl 3y ago
But we are talking about the GPL. If they used a different licence (as they eventually did after months of argument) it would not be relevant, but just the terms we got under GPL were not clearly sufficient, and their first response was "it's okay because we are fine with it". If it was an "it's okay because we are fine with it" in licence form, then it would not be GPL, but a different licence altogether.