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Re:Changing the Ungit license from MIT to Faircode by X86BSD on Sunday November 05, 2017 @01:50PM (#15630879)
I think actually you can. If you rewrite 75%? 80%? You can relicense it. Legally I think the law views that as new code not a modification. A lawyer may need to correct me but I seem to recall something like this.
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Re:Changing the Ungit license from MIT to Faircode by majewsky on Sunday November 05, 2017 @02:15PM (#15631019)
Most certainly not. I recall that, in the SCO vs. IBM case, they discussed copyright of individual code snippets, on the range of a dozen lines of code, that were part of a bigger codebase.
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