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If they're actually open source, this should be literally impossible.
Talk about just throwing the licenses out the window. It’s still open source, since you can read it all to audit, but the use of the code is no longer free with attribution if they decide a single person cannot use it.
Though there’s no way the maintainer cares about this. Given how long this dick measuring contest has been going for.
Actually, most open source licenses (including GPL) have a clause saying that the freedoms granted by the license cannot be revoked as long as the user follows the obligations (namely crediting the author and making their changes open source).
That's why I said they're throwing the license out the window. Flagrantly disregarding the text of the license.
They can change the license for future releases, which would basically block them from using the updated source code.
I'm no legal expert, but it's something to do with the fact that the original code for this was not open source, and was written by a dev not associated with either project. Some Graphene dev updated it for android 12, under whatever license, which somehow meant they could tell calyx they couldn't use the code for android 12. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Graphene are rewriting the code under a full OS license, which they said they would have no issue with calyx using that under the rules of that license.