diff --git a/UseCases/CommunityHealth.mdwn b/UseCases/CommunityHealth.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..56083dea57f11c4cf34183fc56f2d3f81f4e6f6c --- /dev/null +++ b/UseCases/CommunityHealth.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Health of the Development Community + +## Good License Choice + + +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. + + +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. +