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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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This is incorrect. You can relicense your code to whatever you want if you and all the license holders agree to do so. You can’t unlicense the old code, though, and if there are more license holders than just you, it’s probably more complicated than it’s worth.
I’m skeptical this would actually hold up in court because if you wrote the original code and then wrote the new code, it would not be clean room design and would most likely be breaking the terms of the original license.
That link was a fascinating read. TIL. Thanks!
That's accurate that if you wrote the code, you can license or relicense it however you want.
I thought the person was asking about combining together other people's code -- yes, if you wrote it you can do whatever you like.