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Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to a for-profit firm ZipoApps
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From the comment thread it sounds like the contract might be on shaky ground. The original dev seems to be under the impression that a project licensed under GPLv3 can just be freely changed to another license, which it cannot without explicit consent from all contributors. We don't know the contract language of course, but the dev said it would "likely" not remain open source, which indicates that he told them they could change it. ZippApps' lawyers will hopefully notice that and refuse to buy, though either way we shouldn't trust this maintainer again and should move to the forks.
his last comment before closing the thread suggests that "99%" of the code is controlled by him and other paid contributors. still seems like you'd have to manually contact the last 1% to relicense their code.