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What Happens to Relicensed Open Source Projects and Their Forks?

Many popular open source projects are owned and driven by a single company, and in today’s difficult economic climate, those companies are under increasing pressure to deliver a strong return on their investments. One response to this pressure has been relicensing popular open source projects to more restrictive licenses in the hopes of generating more revenue. In some cases, relicensing has resulted in a hard fork of the original project. These relicensing events and their forks can be disrupti...

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