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plank_time | 4 years ago

How can they move the source code from open to closed source? They don’t own the contributions. I guess they hope the small contributors won’t mount a legal challenge or they will pay them off to transfer the rights?

Seems like a lot of effort for this. What is their ultimate end game? I’m not sure that this is worth all the money they have invested is it?

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EMM_386|4 years ago

> How can they move the source code from open to closed source? They don’t own the contributions.

It's in the article. They are having the contributors sign CLAs, which would allow them to do this.

The ones who don't sign the CLA, they will re-write that code themselves to get around it.

workedintheory|4 years ago

The CLA provides for a dual license option, but does not impact the GPL nature of Audacity.

Audacity was/is/always will be GPL.

wizzwizz4|4 years ago

I'm not sure whether you can actually do that. The law works on provenance, not on bits.