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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not too familiar with it, but I'm always open to moving to stronger copyleft-licenses, if the AGPLv3 is proving inadequate.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

does lemmy have a CLA to make changing licenses less of a headache? or did is project AGPLv3-or-later?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm no legal expert, so I don't know what updating the license entails, and why you wouldn't as the creator be able to change the license freely as you see fit.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

every contributor has independently licensed the portion of the code they contributed under the current license. so most larger FOSS projects require a Contributor License Assignment to the org managing that project such that changes like these are legally feasible. otherwise you have to track down every person who made a one line change or risk getting sued for copyright infringement.

when you work for a corporation this license assignment is a standard part of the employment contract for this exact reason. our copyright system is deeply broken.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

theres no gpl4 yet the idea has been floated around