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Re:GameMaker to be free for non-commercial purposes and have... by falcor84 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:06PM (#38366461)
What does this have to do with the preceding argument? Yes, the company could abandon the project, but the concern here is about them taking all the previous work (including volunteer contributions) and proceeding with a more restrictive commercial license; that's what we want to prevent.
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Re:GameMaker to be free for non-commercial purposes and have... by asalahli on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:08PM (#38366515)
> the concern here is about them taking all the previous work

Not unless they retroactively change the license on said previous work, which I'm pretty sure they cannot.

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Re:GameMaker to be free for non-commercial purposes and have... by falcor84 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:47PM (#38367107)
I haven't looked into GameMaker's license specifically, but many projects require a copyright assignment as part of their contributor license agreement.
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Re:GameMaker to be free for non-commercial purposes and have... by zem on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:46PM (#38368153)
that allows relicensing of the combined work moving forward, not retroactive relicensing of already released code.
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Re:GameMaker to be free for non-commercial purposes and have... by falcor84 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:27PM (#38371330)
That's indeed what I meant, apologies if I was unclear.
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