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According to `git blame`, Matt isn't the sole, or even majority, owner of the WordPress codebase.
by greyface- 2y ago
According to `git blame`, Matt isn't the sole, or even majority, owner of the WordPress codebase.
- runjake 2y agoI understand your point, but that wasn’t my point. And in terms of reality, it’s easy to argue that Matt is the effective owner of the codebase.
- greyface- 2y agoThe reality is that copyright law treats the author, not maintainer, as owner. Matt is the author of less than 1% of the codebase by line. To relicense, he would need consent from the remaining 99%. I'm not sure how you could argue otherwise.
- satvikpendem 2y agoYes, if everyone signed a CLA with copyright assignment, as is common in some projects that are still nevertheless GPL, then he could relicense, but because he has not done that (and because it's actually a fork initially), he cannot relicense.