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Re:All software sucks by dllthomas on Monday April 21, 2014 @03:29PM (#7623121)
You can stop granting new licenses, IANAL but ability to revoke licenses you've granted (without allowance for this in the terms of the initial granting) would hugely surprise me. Of course, with the GPL that is still potentially messy.
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Re:All software sucks by antocv on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @05:34AM (#7626626)
Well go check it out, the license that you grant can be revoked.

The only reason this doesnt happen more is that most freedom software has many authors and a change in license would require consent from them all. But a really nasty person could still decide to rip his copyrighted pieces out of any previous version thus crippling the whole project.

But nobody is an asshole like that, but legally the possibility exists.

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Re:All software sucks by dllthomas on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @06:22AM (#7626772)
Isn't that still a matter of the prevention of granting new licenses, rather than revocation of existing licenses?
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