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shawnz
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Huh? Even if it were GPL, how would that prevent "some corporate overlord" from changing the license later?
thanatos_dem
on May 27, 2019
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You can still fork the code up until the point of the license change and freely modify it going forward.
shawnz
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Right, and that's true with the current license too.
throwaway2048
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Whoever owns the copyright on the code can change between licenses at will, they are not constrained by the GPL's restrictions on re-licensing (because they aren't licensing the code to themselves, they own it)
macspoofing
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And you can't with a BSD-style license?
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