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Re:Commons Clause by Zarel on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:00AM (#17818708)
> at best you can try and re-license it under GPL / LGPL if you want more control, and all contributors agree

You actually don't need all contributors to agree, you only need one. The MIT and BSD licenses don't ban you from relicensing into more restrictive licenses (that's why they're popular with businesses, after all).

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Re:Commons Clause by nine_k on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:44AM (#17819017)
No, they require you to retain the copyright notice and the license text, and the license states otherwise: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/305/8261
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Re:Commons Clause by AstralStorm on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @01:38PM (#17820386)
If you can clearly delineate your new code under a different compatible license, you should be fine from the legal standpoint.

The fine hair splitting begins at what is the required amount of modifications required to be able to relicense the given chunk of code.

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