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48 <text>Copyleft licenses (like GNU GPL or GNU Affero GPL) are strongly recommended because they guarantee software freedoms to every single end-user and prevent possibility that freedom vanishes somewhere in the distribution chain and the user can not benefit from the free software albeit the software is build on originally free source code.</text> |
48 <text>Copyleft licenses (like GNU GPL or GNU Affero GPL) are strongly recommended because they guarantee software freedoms to every single end-user and prevent possibility that freedom vanishes somewhere in the distribution chain and the user can not benefit from the free software albeit the software is build on originally free source code.</text> |
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52 <!-- TODO: MUST + exception for older software --> |
52 <!-- TODO: MUST + exception for older software --> |
53 <text>The license should be compatible with GNU GPL in order to allow mixing with the GPL code.</text> |
53 <text>The license must be compatible with GNU GPLv3 in order to allow mixing with the GPL code.</text> |
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54 <text>The only exception is older software (created before this manifesto i.e. 2019) which is unable to change the license</text> |
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55 <text>due to the copyright owned by many authors who can not be reached anymore and who can not provide approval with the license upgrade.</text> |
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56 <text>Such software is called „Sane with exception“.</text> |
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57 <!-- TODO: provide exact wording of the exception e.g. XYZ is „Sane software (with GPLv2 license exception)“ --> |
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58 <note>Software versioned under GPLv2+ or GPLv3+ is compatible with GPLv3.</note> |
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57 <text>If the software is distributed with a hardware, the hardware must support instalation of independently built software without any restrictions or requirements (e.g. digital signature from the original author).</text> |
62 <text>If the software is distributed with a hardware, the hardware must support instalation of independently built software without any restrictions or requirements (e.g. digital signature from the original author).</text> |
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