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Re:Is Arduino no longer open-source? by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @08:24PM (#14557067)
Wouldn't it have to be rebuilt from scratch? I thought that any program containing open-source code must also be entirely open-source, at least with most common licenses.
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Re:Is Arduino no longer open-source? by justin66 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:37AM (#14559390)
no. If you're the sole contributor and have copyright, you can relicense the code however you like. You can't travel back in time and relicense the prior versions so they're no longer open source, but you can certainly control how future versions are licensed.

If you have copyright.

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