Red Hat changes its open-source licensing rules | Linux Today

Red Hat changes its open-source licensing rules

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jun 19, 2018

Red Hat-initiated open-source projects, which use GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1, will be expected to add GPLv3’s cure commitment language to their licenses.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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