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Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers
Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers
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Executive Summary:
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has prepared this document for developers who wish to incorporate permissive-licensed1 code into GPL’d projects.2 Developers are advised to take care to comply with the minimal conditions of the permissive license, which will typically require full preservation of copyright,
permission, and warranty disclaimer notices. Failure to do so may result in infringement of the copyrights applicable to the incorporated permissive-licensed code. In addition to respecting the rights of the permissive
licensor, preservation of notices on parts added to a GPL’d project may facilitate extraction of those parts by downstream users so that they may be used under the permissive terms instead of the GPL.
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has prepared this document for developers who wish to incorporate permissive-licensed1 code into GPL’d projects.2 Developers are advised to take care to comply with the minimal conditions of the permissive license, which will typically require full preservation of copyright,
permission, and warranty disclaimer notices. Failure to do so may result in infringement of the copyrights applicable to the incorporated permissive-licensed code. In addition to respecting the rights of the permissive
licensor, preservation of notices on parts added to a GPL’d project may facilitate extraction of those parts by downstream users so that they may be used under the permissive terms instead of the GPL.
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