• Relicensing versus license compatibility (FSF Blog)

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Fri Apr 10 06:40:08 2026

    The Free Software Foundation has published
    a short article on relicensing versus license compatibility.

    The FSF's Licensing and
    Compliance Lab receives many questions and license violation reports
    related to projects that had their license changed by a downstream
    distributor, or that are combined from two or more programs under
    different licenses. We collaborated with Yoni Rabkin, an experienced
    and long time FSF licensing volunteer, on an updated version of his
    article to provide the free software community with a general
    explanation on how the GNU General Public License (GNU’GPL) is
    intended to work in such situations.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1066926/
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