[Fsf-friends] Continuation....of Basics......

Anand Babu ab@gnu.org.in
Sun Sep 26 10:41:03 IST 2004


,----[ Rajkumar S <s_raj@flashmail.com> ]
| Anand Babu wrote:
| 
| > Note that,
| > A GNU software - need not be copyrighted to FSF - need not be
| > hosted on www.gnu.org or savannah.gnu.org - need not be licensed
| > under GNU GPL
| 
| Can you elaborate in the third point? If not GPL what other licenses
| are accepted? Any major GNU project uses any other licenses?
`----
Any GPL-Compatible Free Software Licenses will do.
You can get a list of them from:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#TOCGPLCompatibleLicenses

Apart from most GNU projects under GNU GPL, GNU LGPL and GNU GFDL, you
can also find
 * Kawa - Scheme and Emacs Lisp on a Java VM
   Licensed under Kawa.
 * Ncurses - Displays and updates text on text-only terminals
   Licensed under an X11-style license.
 * Ninpaths - Paths Survey reporting program
   Licensed under PublicDomain.
 * slib - Portable scheme library
   Licensed under SimplePermissiveNonWarranty
 * Speex - Speech compression format
   Licensed under Xiph.org license.

-- 
Anand Babu
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