Is there any precedent of rewriting a software, let alone in another language, retaining copyright by past contributors?
And this contribute to oss voluntarily but hold copyright and use it as some sort of leverage is bullshit, in my opinion. Don't contribute to someone else's project if your concern is copyright.
> A lot of hypotheticals, conjecture, speculation, personal feels devoid of any facts.
No,not really. There is only one point: does Bun acknowledge that past contributors still hold copyright over the Rust rewrite?
Is there any precedent of rewriting a software, let alone in another language, retaining copyright by past contributors?
And this contribute to oss voluntarily but hold copyright and use it as some sort of leverage is bullshit, in my opinion. Don't contribute to someone else's project if your concern is copyright.