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		FooBarWidget on June 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux? The FSF actively embraces non-copyleft or weak-copyleft licenses. The GPL3 was explicitly designed to be compatible with the Apache license. The Apache license has a weaker copyleft than GPL2.

hasenj on June 2, 2011 [–]

They want to work with other free software, they accept "liberal" licenses, but they don't encourage using them. They even encourage GPL over LGPL.

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