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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Nope not according to the license. Now is the license change legit and allowed? I don't know

[–] iglou@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm far from an expert on licenses, but logic tells me that any version that was released with the previous license is still under that previous license. So it's probably okay to fork from a previous version to maintain linux support?

[–] Bilaketari@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's actually the version that's in the AUR, since they can't put newer (fixed) code in there from the new versions.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

AUR can. It’s just locally checking out the code from git and compiling it locally as well. I’m not a pro AUR maintainer but I’m not aware of a single AUR entry that ships software source code directly from AUR.

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