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Today OP was very dumb and showed his ignorance of the concept "I do whatever I fucking want." Don't be like OP.
They're free to change the licence of future versions. OP also failed at understanding the concept of licences. He's such a silly moron!
Only if they are still the only contributor. Once you have more contributors, it gets far tougher to change the licence.
Pretty sure that with a permissive license you can just change the license of future versions as you want. Ex. v1 MIT license with thousanda.of contributors, v2 Commercial license with contributions from anyone who agrees to contribute to the new version and license. (Anyone can fork v1 and start their own licensed project)
How does it work with contributors? Does absolutely everyone have to consent to having the license changed? If one of the contributors doesn't consent, can the maintainer "cut out" their contributions into a separate program and redistribute it as a plugin with the original license?
You can keep all the lines of those who didn't accept to the change with the original license, it will end up as a bad mix, but it's doable if the licenses are compatible
Very minor changes (like fixing typos in comments) aren't copyrightable, so these changes don't require approval. When LibreOffice was relicensed, IIRC they they had some cutoff regarding lines of code.
Why do you act like I don't know that? The issue here is that once you realize that the license you chose does not reflect your intentions, the damage has likely already been done. From the article I linked: