Apparently spurious relicensing #1146
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I personally agree to allow all my contributions to this project to be relicensed. |
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This issue needs more attention, as it is clearly a violation of the GPL license, i agree. Let's hope that Tyrrrz backs out with this license change as soon as possible. |
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Good point. I'll message the past contributors for their retroactive permission. |
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In 55270ad, you deleted the text of the GPL 3 in
License.txt
and replaced it with the text of the MIT license. There's no obstacle to relicensing your own work in this fashion, but some of the code was contributed by other people. They still hold the copyright to their own contributions unless they explicitly assigned it to you, and the GPL imposes restrictions that make reuse under the MIT license a license violation. The upshot is that if you want the whole codebase usable under MIT, you either need to get contributors to agree to relicense under MIT or back out their changes. Either of these could be a huge hassle, so in your situation, I'd just rollback the license change.Checklist
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