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		Vinnl on Dec 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OB... The authors of the software can create an additional licence that they could buy. Of course, that gets more difficult if there are many different, hard-to-contact authors.

bragr on Dec 17, 2021 [–]

It's worth noting that this is why many commercially minded projects require you assign copyright to them before they'll accept your contributions.

Vinnl on Dec 18, 2021 | [–]

Yep! Or just to switch licences in general, like LLVM is doing, as I pointed out https://fosstodon.org/@VincentTunru/107382361929521089.

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