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Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads (www.androidauthority.com)
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[โ€“] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world -1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Except when it goes from open source to closed lol

[โ€“] unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 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.