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by londons_explore 413 days ago
The copyright holders might have allowed this use, or at least declined to pursue any enforcement.
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Note that copyright holders for an open source project is often a very long list of people that would all need to approve of having their contribution relicensed. It's a bit of a complicated matter.

Considering attribution was removed, I doubt it was approved, but it's not impossible that they somehow learnt and decided not to care as enforcement can be unreasonably cumbersome.