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by digismack 4728 days ago
If you change a software license, are users of that software bound to the new terms if they don't "update" to the version of the software released with the updated terms?
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No, you can’t apply licenses retroactively—if you have a version with the old license it is still under that license.
But you can stop supporting the older versions, say, by only applying fixed bugs to the newer versions.