It's still GPL-compatible, so okay

Posted May 12, 2011 9:21 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
Parent article: Behind the Puppet license change

Changing from GPL to a permissive licence is not something that should worry anybody. Luckily we've gotten away from the proliferation of mutually incompatible copyleft, not-quite-GPL licences that were popular a decade or so ago. The only difficulty is the split between GPL2-only and GPL3-only projects.

It's still GPL-compatible, so okay

Posted May 12, 2011 11:04 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

Well...not quite: Apache License 2.0 is not GPLv2 compatible, only GPLv3-compatible.

It's still GPL-compatible, so okay

Posted May 12, 2011 17:00 UTC (Thu) by fuhchee (guest, #40059) [Link]

"Changing from GPL to a permissive licence is not something that should worry anybody."

... except those who'd like to assure continued availability of the source code, which requires a copyleft type license.