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English: compatibility of common open-source software licenses. Software may be combined under a license that can be reached by tracking the arrows forward from the licenses of all its components. The result must then carry the license in the target box, possibly with additions from the source licenses. Permissive licenses allow the software to become non-free, protective (copyleft) licenses prevent the component from becoming non-free, weakly protective (weak copyleft) licenses additionally allow it (often a software library) to be part of a larger non-free work.
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current04:28, 7 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 04:28, 7 February 20231,400 × 420 (10 KB)Idrisz19+adjusting space
03:06, 7 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 03:06, 7 February 20231,400 × 420 (10 KB)Idrisz19separating "weakly protective" into two columns since previous versions made it appear as if MPL-2.0 was only compatible with (L)GPL-3.0
03:48, 6 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 03:48, 6 February 20231,120 × 580 (10 KB)Idrisz19+one more arrow
03:09, 6 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 03:09, 6 February 20231,120 × 580 (10 KB)Idrisz19+case, per https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/SPDX-license-expressions/#d2-case-sensitivity
02:42, 6 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 02:42, 6 February 20231,120 × 580 (10 KB)Idrisz19+distinguishing between MPL-2.0 and MPL-2.0-no-copyleft-exceptions, switched to using SPDX license id's as labels
22:18, 5 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 22:18, 5 February 2023800 × 490 (10 KB)Idrisz19-reduce filesize
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22:00, 3 February 2023Thumbnail for version as of 22:00, 3 February 2023800 × 470 (10 KB)Idrisz19+MPL 2.0
23:17, 21 January 2022Thumbnail for version as of 23:17, 21 January 2022512 × 256 (4 KB)CmgleeRedraw to make arrows more prominent and reduce file size
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