[viraptor]

Sometimes they get changed for a silly reason (someone just didn't think of the consequences). Sometimes they get changed because they have to - if I remember correctly it was Asterisk that needed to drop some copyrighted music samples and retagged old versions.

[gunapologist99]

That shouldn't matter, then; it should just result in a new release.

[viraptor]

You can't distribute the old versions with copyright violation. The problem doesn't go away just because you released a new version.

[nilamo]

But then you have two different things (with and without copyrighted data) both with the same version. Wouldn't it be better to just remove the bad release, and publish a new one? They are, after all, not the same things, and shouldn't have the same release.