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License compatibility is the comparison of two or more licenses to determine if certain usages and actions can be made. Use this tag if the question would like to determine the compatibility of licenses, or their individual clauses.
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GPLv2-Only Compatibiliy
A.) My-GPLv2-Only-Solution + MIT Lib
Yes, this is compatible. The combination must be licensed as a whole under the GPLv2, and the MIT parts do not impose any restrictions that make this as-a-whole …
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Is statically linking MIT/X licensed software with a GPLv2 library is illegal?
The X11 license permits virtually anything, as long as you retain copyright notices and mention that X11 permissions apply to some portion of your software. This is compatible with virtually all other …
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Relation between the creative commons license and the patent process
The Creative Commons family of licenses are copyright licenses. They license the copyrightable expression contained in your work. A creative written text can be covered by copyright, granting the auth …
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Copyright license grants of GPLv2 in MIT project
If the author(s) of library Y really did license library Y to the author of library X under permissive MIT X11 terms (and assuming Y doesn't retroactively try to deny that they did so), then you have …
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CC BY-NC-ND project containing GPL-licensed work
The author has chosen to distribute some portion of someone else's GPL-licensed work as part of a larger work. The author has also chosen to distribute some of their own work under CC BY-NC-ND. As you …
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Could I remove GPLv2 from this algorithm implementation?
Copyright applies to creative expression. You are correct that algorithms are not expression as copyright understands the concept. However, when you look at the FFT code here, you've not looking at a …
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Is Open Public License suitable for libraries?
Note that the FSF does not consider the Open Public License a free software license. Importantly, it requires a developer to send modified code to a single upstream developer, which prohibits sharing …
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Licensing software that uses a proprietary library under GPL-3.0 without linking exceptions:...
When you distribute source code that's available under the GPL, you can simply do it (provided you preserve markings, etc.). It doesn't matter that the source code won't build into a meaningful execut …
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Use LGPL code in an AGPL project
This is a little tricky because the LGPL and AGPL are not strictly compatible. For LGPL code that is linked to AGPL code, compatibility is not required, because LGPL-licensed can be linked to anything …
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GPL V3 with OpenSSL Exception
Yes, this is possible, and Deluge's approach appears to be roughly in line with the FSF's recommendations.
The GPL FAQ has this to say on exceptions for GPL-incompatible libraries:
What legal issues …
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Is GPLv3-only compatible with GPLv3+?
The actual text of a GPLv3+ grant is
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License...; either version 3 of the License, …
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Is it open source for allowing people who have access to the source act as if it's open source?
This comes down to whether you offer the code to the recipients under a true free/open license. The preconditions under which you freely choose to offer the code does not pertain to its status as free …
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Why is the zlib license GPL-compatible
I don't see an issue, as the preservation (and introduction) of legal markings on modified forms, and a prohibition against misrepresentation, are permissible requirements to add to a GPL distribution …
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What does 'terms that are compatible with the GPL' mean?
This advice from the Octave project is in line with the GNU project's own FAQ:
You have a GPL'ed program that I'd like to link with my code to build a proprietary program. Does the fact that I link w …
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Can I link a Apache 2.0 library into software under GPLv2?
(Here's my best guess. This is obviously a very hairy problem to work through, and I've tried my best to reduce the problem down to basic principles. However, I may gotten some of those basic principl …
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