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pocksuppet 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: No right to relicense this project

Maybe. Enabling more GPL software to become proprietary isn't exactly a service.

red_admiral 6 months ago | [–]

I think they moved chardet from GPL to MIT? If the maintainer made future versions proprietery, they'd surely be forked and then kicked out of the python package repo?

pocksuppet 6 months ago | | [–]

That's what MIT does. It lets downstream versions become proprietary.

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