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# Health of the Development Community
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## Good License Choice
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<a id="license-approved"></a>
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Obviously, code that's not under a license that is both
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[OSI approved](http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical) and is not
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[approved by FSF as a Free Software license](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses)
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is completely useless to us.
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<a id="gpl-compatible"></a>
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It would also be quite preferable if the code were under a
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[a license that FSF has determined is GPL-compatible](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses),
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so that code from GPL'd projects can be easily shared and GPL'd applications
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can be built on top of anything we build. Code not under a GPL-compatible
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license would face a high burden (i.e., the code would really have to be
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absolutely wonderful in all other respects) to dictate such a license choice.
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