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- Nov 17, 2025 Relicensing a Mature Project: Consent, Forks, and Downstream Effects Changing a project license is a copyright transaction with every rightsholder in the tree, not a policy announcement; the routes that avoid consent, the audit that establishes who must be asked, and what a change cannot reach. computing history
- Jun 30, 2022 What a Software License Does to a Copyright Default Copyright reserves reproduction, modification and distribution from the moment code is fixed, so a license is a conditional permission that lifts specific rights; permissive and copyleft terms differ only in the conditions attached. computing history