History of LicenseCompatibility

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Changed: 1c1

This page is intended to clarify which software licenses are compatible, or incompatible with LinuxCNC.

This page is intended to summarize which software licenses are compatible, or incompatible with LinuxCNC, who has said so, and why. It is intended as an aid to developers to judge whether a given software package can be included freely in LinuxCNC, or under which conditions.

Added: 2a3

LinuxCNC is compatible with software licensed as:

Changed: 4,7c5

LinuxCNC and other software

||License||compatible with LinuxCNC|| why ||reference||

||License||compatible with LinuxCNC||justification||reference||

Added: 8a7,13

||Mozilla||?||?|| ? ||
||LGPL||?||?|| ? ||
||LGPL 2.1 license (static linking permitted)||?||?|| ? ||
||LGPLv3+||?||?|| ? ||
||BSD||?||?|| ? ||
||MIT||?||?|| ? ||
||Apache 2.0||?||?|| ? ||

Changed: 10,15c15

Please add license types and comments as appropriate.

Changed: 19c19

I have no idea what the page http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?License is for, and what it applies to. Maybe someone can clarify.

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	Revision 7 . . (edit) July 22, 2012 2:28 pm by MichaelHaberler
	Revision 6 . . (edit) July 22, 2012 9:53 am by MichaelHaberler
	Revision 5 . . (edit) July 22, 2012 8:51 am by MichaelHaberler
	Revision 4 . . July 22, 2012 8:47 am by MichaelHaberler *[Start page on license compatibility]**
	Revision 3 . . (edit) July 22, 2012 8:39 am by MichaelHaberler
	Revision 2 . . (edit) July 22, 2012 8:31 am by MichaelHaberler
	Revision 1 . . (edit) July 22, 2012 8:23 am by MichaelHaberler *[Start page on license compatibility]**