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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ebits21@lemmy.ca to c/python@programming.dev

Previously LGPL, now re-licensed as closed-source/commercial. Previous code taken down.

Commercial users pay $99/year, free for personal use but each user has to make a free account after a trial period.

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[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

Does the LGPL really allow that or did they make all the contributors agree to allow their code to be relicensed?

[-] dosboy0xff@infosec.pub 38 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago

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

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

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

[-] JayPalm@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

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