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Unless existing outside contributors agreed to relicense, then all of their existing work is still GPLv3, as I don't see any CLA or copyright assignment as a prerequisite for contribute. That or they have had to remove those contributions.

I didn't see that mentioned in the announcement, so TBD.

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Yes! I didn't mention, but I contacted all contributors directly over the last month or so and asked for permission to re-license their code. We only went ahead with the change when everybody had signed off on the shift. In fact, all the contributors were postively disposed to the shift (with a few even suggesting that we go 'server side' immediatly to stop the AWS threat!)

LukeEF mentioned the fact that all contributors consented in another comment.

However, since the code was GPLed, it's still GPLed at the commit prior to the licence change. One could theoretically fork at that commit.

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