Comment by digitalPhonix
5 months ago
>> The license does not bind the original copyright owner, who can do anything with the code
> whether or not it's legal according to the license
The original author is not bound by any licence. Only the licensees are. The licence they chose to use by definition cannot bind them; they are issuing the licence.
(They are obviously bound by the licences of anything that they use, but that’s not what the person you’re replying to is talking about)
> The original author is not bound by any licence.
Yes, but this is only true if nobody else ever contributes to the software. Once the project has multiple contributors, each of these people are copyright holders of whatever they contributed, and they are the licensor for their parts of the code. So the original author is also held to the terms of the license for all contributed code.