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Why the hell do you think this? Or push it?
you seem to know nothing about what you’re talking about
Have you even committed code to an open source project? Maintainers do not automatically get a say, I can’t submit a PR and block this, and code has Owners as well, who can override the maintainers at any time
Corporations count on as much when they get the owner to sell out, and force the maintainers to setup a fork and lose a fuckton of momentum
@RandoCalrandian @Spellbind0127 mastodon github doesn’t contain this file for laughs it contains it for legal reasons. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/AUTHORS.md
Citation needed.
I include those files all the time for convenience and to promote my gratitude to the people who gave their work for free with no legal protections around how it could be used.
@RandoCalrandian l@Spellbind0127 because thats the law you can’t just change the license of code that other have contributed to just because you own the repository doesn’t make it so you own the legal rights to all the code. (Your an idiot if you say otherwise. )
Then cite the law, since you seem so confident about it
Or even one instance of legal consequences being brought against an open source code owner who changed the license (betting you can't find one)
The truth of the matter is licenses mean nothing to the people who don't have the resources to hire lawyers to argue about them.
The owner of the NPM repo that took down 1/3 of the internet because he decided he didn't want to share anymore had a license, and NPM said "yeah, well, we're taking your work anyway, fuck you" and what was supposedly "legal" meant fuck all
lol, you clearly don't know law
They can release the next version under whatever license they want, because they own the code
Happens all the time