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Questions tagged [relicensing]

For questions about changing the license of a work which has already been published under a different license (or published under all-rights-reserved copyright)

Re-licensing is the concept of changing or adding a license to a project which has previously been licensed under any license, including previous versions of the newer license, or which have previously been protected by copyright.

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Impact of accepting a new open source licence type when updating software

I understand that if someone chooses not to upgrade their software they are free to retain all license benefits of their existing software. Please assume the following: XYZ software version 1.0 has an The MIT License XYZ software version 1.1 has a…
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Relicensing open-source software

During my PhD at a research institution I developed some software that I made public under the LGPL license (upon advice from the law people at this institution). I then moved to another research institution. The first institution have continued to…
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License validity of unreleased project

For educational purposes I've open sourced my blog on GitHub (https://github.com/nehalist/nehalist.io), which is based on a fork of an MIT licensed repo (https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-default). I haven't changed the license until I…
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Can contributions be licensed under different licence instead of using CLA's?

I sometimes see open source projects that want to switch their licenses to a more permissive one. If original author of a project or community around it want to switch license then they must ask all contributors for a permission to do so. For…
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How can I add a license to an existing group project?

For a university course I have developed a software application in a group of 12 students. So far we have been developing without a license (in a private repository), but now that the course is over we would like to continue working on the project…
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Does the CeCILL permit relicensing to licenses named in later versions of the license?

I want to release a program under the CeCILL version 2. It permits relicensing to the GPL, and I'm okay with that. However, version 2.1 permits relicensing to the European Union Public License, and I don't want to allow that, because (as the FSF…
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Using only certain files out of GPL code

The whole of atk1.0-2.4.0 is listed under GNU-GPLv2.0. Can I take certain files out of GNU GPL license code and use it under different license / no license, or is this considered as obfuscation of GNU GPL licensed code?
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Can this file be included in a project that's going to be released under the GPL?

I have a need to emulate a 6502 in my project, but I don't really want to spend time to develop and debug something to do that when there already exist many solutions to exactly that problem. Therefore, I scouted out and found someone else's…
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BSD 3-Clause License Changed to GNU General Public License v2.0

I had previously downloaded an open source project under the BSD 3-Clause, which I am planning to make use of in a commercial product. As far as I understand, this license will permit this in a closed source operation. However, the license for the…
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Can Linus Torvalds change the license of Linux to private or nonfree "commercial"?

This is a general question. Is it possible to change the license of your creation (in this case something like linux) that have been developed by an entire community, not just Linus? Can it be changed?
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