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if contributions require copyright assignment they are free to relicense the code.
by throwaway2048 14y ago
if contributions require copyright assignment they are free to relicense the code.
- Someone 14y agoThat is true, but a would-be contributor might fork the GPL-ed part instead of assigning copyrights, for example because he doesn't want to assign copyright to a commercial entity or because his country does not allow him to give away all his rights. It only takes one such a would-be contributor who contributes a highly useful feature for that fork to become the canonical version of the software (any features appearing in the original GPL-ed version later on can be ported into it, if desired; the reverse is not true)