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by jen20 43 days ago
> Thats a really big deal, how did they legally managed to do the license change? I was under the impression that only works if the original owner is the doing most work

Almost all of these license changes just change the terms under which _new_ work is contributed - which is why many of them have forks from the last OSI-licensed commit.

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Now that makes sense, so its legal because the contributors can still access their code