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by comice 4931 days ago
What they claim their intentions were is unimportant.

They were granting themselves irrevokable rights to do things people didn't ever want them to be able to do.

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A possible negative scenario: They grant themselves these rights and then get spun off / acquired by someone with malicious intent. The rights never expire... Can you guarantee that your company will respect the rights of users a decade from now? A century?
Also, you now can't ever sell exclusive rights[1], because there's a perpetual sub-licence capable party floating about out there.

[1] IANAL, but I think that's how it would work; for any licenceable aspect which you wish to grant exclusively, they can grant the same to one or more others, making it non-exclusive.