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Wild – A fast linker for Linux

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383 points hkalbasi | 1 comments | 24 Jan 25 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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pzmarzly ◴[24 Jan 25 16:55 UTC] No.42815005[source]▶
Ever since mold relicensed from AGPL to MIT (as part of mold 2.0 release), the worldwide need for making another fast linker has been greatly reduced, so I wasn't expecting a project like this to appear. And definitely wasn't expecting it to already be 2x faster than mold in some cases. Will keep an eye on this project to see how it evolves, best of luck to the author.
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easythrees ◴[24 Jan 25 20:13 UTC] No.42816517[source]▶
Wait a minute, it’s possible to relicense something from GPL to MIT?
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1. DrillShopper ◴[24 Jan 25 20:18 UTC] No.42816559[source]▶
Yes. Generally you need permissions from contributors (either asking them directly or requiring a contribution agreement that assigns copyright for contributions to either the author or the org hosting the project), but you can relicense from any license to any other license.

That doesn't extinguish the prior versions under the prior license, but it does allow a project to change its license.