[jira] Commented: (LEGAL-48) Legal category for GPLv3 license

["Sam Ruby (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sam Ruby commented on LEGAL-48:
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GPLv3 is correctly marked.  What you have undoubtedly read concerning "compatibility" uses that term in a rather unique, specific, and one directional way.  For more background see:

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/06/29/GPL-Compatible
http://www.apache.org/legal/ramblings.html

In particular, "Approximation 1" in the second link.

> Legal category for GPLv3 license
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-48
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-48
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Todd Volkert
>
> I've read that GPLv3 is definitely compatible with the Apache 2 license, yet our third party licensing policy page (http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html) lumps GPLv2 and GPLv3 together as "GNU GPL".  It seems like the licensing policy page is out of date, but maybe I'm missing something -- is there an explicit reason why GPLv3 is in Category X?

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