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The Immich core team goes full-time | Immich (immich.app)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Immich is joining FUTO!

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Isn't a huge part of the point of copy left licences that an author can't change the license without rewriting the code entirely?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    For the license to be changed every team member needs to submit a written agreement that he agrees to the change, otherwise their contributions must be removed as they were written under a different license, the only exception is usually permissive licenses such as MIT/BSD 3 clause.

    Usually, to rugpull FOSS contributors, companies who maintain FOSS software ask contributors to sign a CLA which waives their rights and lets the control their contributions. Immich isn’t doing any of that, and it will likely remain AGPL forever because changing the license will be a big hassle for them with the amount of contributors.

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