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Locking myself from ever changing license
You can't do anything within the constraints of copyright law as the copyright holder is never restricted by the license.
Practically if you accept contributions from a large number of contributors ...
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Locking myself from ever changing license
You may assign the copyright of your project to a trusted organization. While you, as the copyright holder, may change the license freely, transferring your rights to someone else removes that ability....
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Locking myself from ever changing license
You can't, in some jurisdictions.
Under US law (17 USC 203), any transfer or license of copyright (other than a work-for-hire or a bequest) automatically gives rise to termination rights, which may be ...
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Short Weak Copyleft Software License
Really, the comments above say everything that needs to be said, but I'll pull it together into a single answer.
Firstly, the GPL is complex in its writing because it's a legal document; it's meant to ...
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Do EUPL-1.2 license violations have to be disputed in an EU court?
Most free software licences don't contain choice-of-law clauses; this question examines the whole issue in more detail, and sheds some interesting light on why the FSF, in particular, don't think it's ...
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Locking myself from ever changing license
I want to assure the users and contributors, that my software will stay open-source forever. How can I do so?
Make at least one Open Source release
Changing the license of the project does not change ...
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How do I properly put third-party dependencies under MIT on my copyright notice for a published MacOS app on the App Store?
[...], would the copyright notice that could be shown by pressing the "About IconCast" button under the "IconCast" menu when the app is focused be valid?
Yes, the About screen is ...
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Do EUPL-1.2 license violations have to be disputed in an EU court?
There is indeed a distinction to do between the venue (competent court) and the applicable law. In case the licensor is in Rio - Brazil, and has no office in EU, the compentent court (according to the ...
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Locking myself from ever changing license
What you're asking about isn't completely unheard-of. The short version is that you can't strictly prohibit yourself from doing this, but you can make it so ridiculously unlikely that it's almost the ...
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