Only the Free Software Foundation can release versions of the GNU General Public License. And the automatic relicensing provision applies only to future versions released by the Free Software Foundation. The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source". I wrote it for the free software movement, and its purpose is to ensure every user of every version of the program gets the essential freedoms. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html for more explanation of the difference between free software and open source. In private, the GNU GPL lets users link GPL-covered code with anything whatsoever. However, if they distribute such a combination, the whole combination must be released as a whole under the GPL. This makes sure that users of the combination have freedom. This has been true for all versions of the GNU GPL. In version 3 we have relaxed it slightly in some harmless but useful ways. If you want to use a simple permissive license such as the X11 license for your code, just go ahead. It is a free software license (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html), so the FSF will say this is basically ok. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
