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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nice, but I wonder if they plan to switch to GPL, or stay with MPL. No mention of that on the website.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They probably won't GPL it, since that'll make the fork even less appealing to companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

(Not a legal advice) AFAIK, they can't. If you want to switch a license you have to get consent of all contributors or (in case of CLA shit) consent of the owner of the code

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The MPL allows for it as far as I can tell, its just fairly complicated since the MPL would still apply at the file-level for all existing files.