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PySimpleGUI is now closed-source (github.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Previously LGPL, now re-licensed as closed-source/commercial. Previous code taken down.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does the LGPL really allow that or did they make all the contributors agree to allow their code to be relicensed?

[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Previous versions licensed under LGPL will remain licensed as such. The current maintainers have no obligation to contribute distributing the older versions, but they aren't permitted to prevent others from distributing it or modifying or doing anything else that was permitted by the license.

And, yes, to change from GPL/LGPL to another license you would need all of the contributors to consent, or to rewrite the parts that were contributed by anyone who doesn't agree with the license change. Since it looks like there only one contributor according to the GitHub page, this probably wasn't too difficult.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Was there only ever one contributor? There's only one now, but all the old commits have been removed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They apparantly had a police of not accepting merge requests or even code snippets.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ahh huh, I wonder if this was the plan the whole time then

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Hmm thatโ€™s a scary conspiracy. Seems like checking that there are at least a handful of contributors needs to be part of adding new dependencies.