by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images Whats in a License? There is a lot of software licenses out there, and there are a lot of opinions about licenses out there. Sometimes I notice that…

It seems people have a hard time understanding the implications of licenses, so I have written a something to help with that.

  • paperplane@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    What I mean is that you (IIUC) can’t use an AGPL library in a GPL app without relicensing the whole thing to AGPL. For many larger projects relicensing is a huge hassle and often a non-starter if there aren’t very good reasons for it.

    • ColloidalEnglish
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      3 days ago

      You’re right, the explicit permission is only the other way around.