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by the_duke 1889 days ago
Is sublicensing and relicensing the same thing? Sublicensing to AGPL should definitely be OK, but does that mean they can just relicense all contributed code and remove all mentions of Apache2? Seems doubtful to me.

This GNU article [1] explicitly mentions that subsumed licenses still need to be mentioned in the source.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-compatibility.en.html

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Hm, I'm not a lawyer, but the answer is... kind of. It's a bit complicated. I can understand a valid interpretation for either answer.