alt Hacker News> its creation was neither ideologically motivated nor part of some nefarious GPL-erasure scheme
No, they openly refuse to accept any GPL code. And even have a strict policy of not even reading GPL code.
> its creation was neither ideologically motivated nor part of some nefarious GPL-erasure scheme
No, they openly refuse to accept any GPL code. And even have a strict policy of not even reading GPL code.
No, once you have an MIT-licensed codebase without a copyright assignment scheme, you no longer have the freedom to relicense it at will. You could attempt to have a mixed-license codebase, which is supported by the GPL, and specify that all new contributions must accept the GPL, but this is tantamount to an incompatible fork of the project from the perspective of any downstream users, and anyone who insists on contributing code under the GPL has the freedom to perform this fork themselves.