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duskdozeryesterday at 2:18 PM1 replyview on HN

They would be concealing the violation.


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orthoxeroxyesterday at 2:28 PM

Consider TCC relicensing. They identified the files touched by contributors that wanted to keep the GPL license and reimplemented them. No team A/team B clean room approach used. The same happened here, but at a different scale. All files now have a new author and this author is free to change the license of his work.