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[โ€“] dosboy0xff 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Previous versions licensed under LGPL will remain licensed as such. The current maintainers have no obligation to contribute distributing the older versions, but they aren't permitted to prevent others from distributing it or modifying or doing anything else that was permitted by the license.

And, yes, to change from GPL/LGPL to another license you would need all of the contributors to consent, or to rewrite the parts that were contributed by anyone who doesn't agree with the license change. Since it looks like there only one contributor according to the GitHub page, this probably wasn't too difficult.

[โ€“] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was there only ever one contributor? There's only one now, but all the old commits have been removed.

[โ€“] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They apparantly had a police of not accepting merge requests or even code snippets.

[โ€“] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ahh huh, I wonder if this was the plan the whole time then

[โ€“] JayPalm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Hmm thatโ€™s a scary conspiracy. Seems like checking that there are at least a handful of contributors needs to be part of adding new dependencies.