Well, IANAL but I think the original creator of FLIF could still decide give a special license to Adobe if they want to negotiate one, no?
EDIT: practically confirmed elsewhere in the thread by the original author, with motivation:
There is still a lot of room for improvement in the encoder, which is why (at least for now) it has the LGPL license, to ensure that improvements can be integrated in the reference implementation
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Well, IANAL but I think the original creator of FLIF could still decide give a special license to Adobe if they want to negotiate one, no?
EDIT: practically confirmed elsewhere in the thread by the original author, with motivation:
IANAL either, but I suspect it would be between difficult and impossible to offer an alternate license once outside contributions are integrated.
Good point, I had forgotten about the viral aspect of the GPL. But it looks like Sneyers already thought of that too, luckily.