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Re:Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commerc... by pjc50 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:03AM (#25847191)
This is fine if there are no other contributors, but if you're switching to a closed license to get paid, you need to pay all the contributors to make it "fair".
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Re:Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commerc... by mooreds on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:21PM (#25851447)
I think that is true, unless everyone has signed an agreement specifying that such a switch is ok and that they give up all the rights to their code. Contracts are contracts.

I have no idea if the contributors to elastic have done this, however.

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