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- Feb 27, 2026 Maintainer Authority and the Fork as an Exit Mechanism How merge rights, review conventions and ownership files concentrate control of a project that no license grants anyone, and why the license makes forking always possible while the trademarks and distribution channels make it expensive. computing history
- 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