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GPLv3 & additional permissions/restrictions

GPLv3 & additional permissions/restrictions

Posted Sep 26, 2006 11:12 UTC (Tue) by alexbk (subscriber, #37839)
In reply to: GPLv3 & additional permissions/restrictions by mingo
Parent article: Some GPLv3 clarifications from the FSF

LGPL has allowed this kind of relicensing into pure-GPL for years and no evil purification has
occured. If you don't want removal of extra permissions/requirements, use a different license where
those are not allowed to be removed; the good thing is that it can still be combined with GPLv3
code.


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