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by jraph 295 days ago
True, but that's still a risk that adds to the risk of the authors switching the license.

BTW, if the jerk list is tied to the license, if the project had external contributors, they all need to agree to add or remove someone from the list, like any license change…

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> BTW, if the jerk list is tied to the license, if the project had external contributors, they all need to agree to add [...] someone from the list, like any license change…

Not if you base this off a license like MIT that allows sublicensing under more restrictive terms (not a lawyer, not legal advice)

Untrue - all that needs to happen is that future work needs to be released with the new list attached.