# Health of the Development Community

## Good License Choice

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Obviously, code that's not under a license that is both

[OSI approved](http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical) and is not

[approved by FSF as a Free Software license](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses)

is completely useless to us.

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It would also be quite preferable if the code were under a

[a license that FSF has determined is GPL-compatible](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses),

so that code from GPL'd projects can be easily shared and GPL'd applications

can be built on top of anything we build.  Code not under a GPL-compatible

license would face a high burden (i.e., the code would really have to be

absolutely wonderful in all other respects) to dictate such a license choice.