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by bananapub 815 days ago
> I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that I can create a fork of any MIT licensed project right now, and relicense it as GPL

absolutely not, you can't relicense other people's code.

you can combine some MIT code with some GPL code you wrote, though, and the aggregate can be distributed under the intersection of both licenses, which is ~the GPL.

the license of each bit of code is still whatever license it had originally, though.