• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    Thats why you want open source software, its the only software you can trust, its the only software that won’t fuck you over

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        20 hours ago

        at least forking is an option you can choose, and someone else with decent reputation in the foss community will probably also do it before you, instead of just accepting being fucked up the ass with no lube for the third time this week

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        17 hours ago

        At which point it simply gets forked from the last release/commit. Unless the project nukes all of the history and no one comes forward with a backup.

        And, they would typically need the consent of every contributor to legally change the license, unless they had been forcing contributors to sign over rights to their code before contribution.