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ISC license advice

Is the ISC license suitable as a MIT or Simplified BSD license replacement?

Redistributing BSD-licensed software?

Is it acceptable to distribute unmodified BSD-licensed software (pyglet) with GPL-licensed software I created? The BSD allows for sale of modified software, I know, but does it allow re-licensing of unmodified? Seems to defeat the purpose of having a license at all.

Incorporating GPL Code in my Open Source Project

I have downloaded a currently inactive GPL project with a view to updating it and releasing the completed codebase as open source. I’m not really a fan of GPL though and would rather licence my project under BSD.

Handling optional GPL dependencies

Assume I have a library A which is licensed under a two-clause Free BSD style license. Library A optionally depends on library B (the availability of the dependency is configured at build-time), which is licensed under the GPLv3.

Open source license with backlink requirement

I’m developing a Javascript library, and I’m thinking about releasing it under an open source license (e.g. GPL, BSD, MIT) — but that requires that websites that use the software link back to my website.

GPLv3 Project with BSD Library

I am working in a Python project that I want to release under the GPL3 license. This project has one file that uses the BSD lxml library .