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by jboynyc 2352 days ago
You might also be interested in this essay on "proprietary relicensing" from the Software Freedom Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality...
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I am! This was an interesting read, thanks.

In particular, I fee like the comment on copyright assignment is an insightful way of explaining why these approaches to licensing often feel inconsistent with company claims to support 'Openness':

> If an entity does not gladly bind itself by its own copyleft license (for example, by accepting third-party contributions to its codebases under that license), we should not treat that entity as a legitimate license steward, nor treat that license as a legitimate FOSS license.