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Re:A Change in License for Berkeley DB by digismack on Saturday July 06, 2013 @05:08AM (#5998384)
If you change a software license, are users of that software bound to the new terms if they don't "update" to the version of the software released with the updated terms?
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Re:A Change in License for Berkeley DB by schrijver on Saturday July 06, 2013 @05:12AM (#5998392)
No, you can’t apply licenses retroactively—if you have a version with the old license it is still under that license.
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Re:A Change in License for Berkeley DB by vorg on Saturday July 06, 2013 @06:07AM (#5998478)
But you can stop supporting the older versions, say, by only applying fixed bugs to the newer versions.
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