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The GNU's General Public License, a commonly-used free software license. The GPL has various versions, v1-v3, so use this tag only for questions talking about overarching issues of the licenses or shared characteristics. For example, for a question about a unique section on version 3, use the [gpl-3] tag.

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What are the implications of licensing a JavaScript library under GPL?

GPL linking & GPL libraries Linking a GPL covered work statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on the GPL covered work. … GPL modules But you can give additional permission for the use of your code. You can, if you wish, release your program under a license which is more lax than the GPL but compatible with the GPL. …
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What are the implications of licensing a JavaScript library under GPL?

GPL-ed JS is used with other JS without cross calls. … The terms of the GNU GPL require that the source code for an executable be made available in one of the ways the GPL permits. …
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Licensing under "version X or later"

Is it a GPL-only thing or can I use this formulation with any license, like "MPL 2 or later"? …
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