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What license do they choose? I clicked though the article to another article (in German) and then to another:

And found this (in German language) part:

Die Software wird unter der sogenannten “Open Source Lizenz GLP V3” allgemein zur Verfügung gestellt.

Is it actually GPLv3 and this is just a typo? Or is this a modified version maybe?

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The law says this:

Soweit möglich und sinnvoll sind international etablierte Lizenztexte zu verwenden. Haftungsansprüche von Lizenznehmern sind auszuschliessen, soweit dies rechtlich möglich ist.

As far as possible and expedient, internationally established licenses are to be used.

That sounds like they’re not mandating specific licenses, but the GPL is a reasonable choice

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The only problem is that there are a number of licenses that purport to be open source, but which don’t meet established definitions of the term. The license for Grayjay comes to mind. I’d hope that they blacklist certain licenses like that, rather than enforcing a specific one.

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Huh, I hadn’t heard about this. I hope Rossman doesn’t think he’s above criticism.

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