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lumberjack | karma 3354 | avg karma 3.17 · 2013-07-25 15:05:27

I think you might be a bit confused.

MIT/BSD are fully supported by the FSF and are GPL compliant. They are free software licenses in all aspects.

chimeracoder | karma 20702 | avg karma 3.63 · 2013-07-25 15:53:01+00:00

> MIT/BSD are fully supported by the FSF and are GPL compliant. They are free software licenses in all aspects.

To be clear, GPL compliance is not a prerequisite to being a free software license. There exist many free software licenses which are not technically GPL compliant for various reasons: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibl...

However, while freedom does not imply GPL compliance, I do believe GPL compliance implies freedom. I'm not 100% certain of this, but I can't think of a counterexample or how that might not be true.

(I know you probably know this, but I want to make sure others reading your comment do too).

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