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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-20 22:16:53
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 under GPLv3\S7 does not alter any existing behavior of the LGPL since the LGPL
 has always allowed relicensing under the ordinary GPL\@.
 \section{Understanding License Compatibility}
 \label{license-compatibility}
 A challenge that faced the Free Software community heavily through out the
 early 2000s was the proliferation of incompatible Free Software licenses.  Of
 course, we cannot make the GPL compatible with all such licenses. GPLv3
 course, the GPL cannot possibly be compatible with all such licenses.
 However, GPLv3
 contains provisions that are designed to reduce license incompatibility by
 making it easier for developers to combine code carrying non-GPL terms with
 GPL'd code.
 \subsection{GPLv3~\S7: Additional Requirements and License Compatibility}
 We broadened the title of section 7 because license compatibility, as it is
 conventionally understood, is only one of several facets of the placement of

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