,----[ 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
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