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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by nerdponx on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:07AM (#29683851)
It's a question of handing it over and giving them a ToS shield to hide behind, versus making them work for it and risking license violations "in the wild".
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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by rustc on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:27AM (#29684023)
Does their ToS give them additional rights to the code uploaded to GitHub? There are several unofficial copies of projects like glibc [1] uploaded by people who definitely do not have the authority to grant any additional rights to the code.

[1]: https://github.com/bminor/glibc

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