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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: 0.215s | 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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prmoustache ◴[24 Jan 25 21:53 UTC] No.42817285[source]▶
Yes if you are the only developper and never received nor accepted external contributions or if you managed to get permission from every single person who contributed or replaced their code with your own.
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computably ◴[24 Jan 25 22:06 UTC] No.42817374[source]▶
> or if you managed to get permission from every single person who contributed

This makes it sound more difficult than it actually is (logistically); it's not uncommon for major projects to require contributors to sign a CLA before accepting PRs.

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1. bialpio ◴[25 Jan 25 20:17 UTC] No.42824459[source]▶
How is the problem of "you signed a CLA without authorization by your employer to do so" solved? I'm mostly asking because I saw the following:

"I will not expose people taping out Hazard3 to the possibility of your employer chasing you for your contribution by harassing them legally. A contribution agreement does not solve this, because you may sign it without the legal capability to do so (...)"

https://github.com/Wren6991/Hazard3/blob/stable/Contributing... (this is I believe the repo with design for riscv cores running on RPi Pico 2)