LicenseCompatibility - rmu75/linuxcnc-wiki GitHub Wiki


date: '2012-07-22T16:28:39' title: LicenseCompatibility

This page is intended to summarize which software licenses are compatible, or incompatible with LinuxCNC, who has said so, and why. It is intended as an aid to developers to judge whether a given software package can be included freely in LinuxCNC, or under which conditions.

LinuxCNC is compatible with software licensed as:

License compatible with LinuxCNC justification reference
GPLv3 no ?? link to irc message, archived mail etc
Mozilla ? ? ?
LGPL ? ? ?
LGPL 2.1 license (static linking permitted) ? ? ?
LGPLv3+ ? ? ?
BSD ? ? ?
MIT ? ? ?
Apache 2.0 ? ? ?

Please add license types and comments as appropriate.

Notes

I have no idea what the page http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?License is for, and what it applies to. Maybe someone can clarify.