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Re:Don’t sign a CLA by tomp on Friday October 05, 2018 @11:33AM (#18148931)
> technically if you don't pay for code the copyright holder can revoke the license at any time

So Linus can all of a sudden say that Linux is no longer GPL?!

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Re:Don’t sign a CLA by whatshisface on Friday October 05, 2018 @11:40AM (#18148984)
Each contributor may only re-license their contributions independently. If there's any of Linus's own work left in the kernel it would have to be rewritten should he decide that he was fed up with RMS and was going to take Linux closed source. ;)
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Re:Don’t sign a CLA by throwaway2048 on Friday October 05, 2018 @04:09PM (#18151304)
This is not accurate, you can not retroactively re-license distributed code, only code you distribute going forward. No code would need to be rewritten.
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