- Please consider using "GPL version 3 or later" if looking for a good strongly-reciprocal licence for your software.
- Please consider using "GPL version 3 or later" if looking for a good strongly-reciprocal licence for your software. The SPDC identifiers for the "or later" versions of the GNU licences are special. They do not use the "+" suffix but prefer the more explicit "-or-later". Therefore, "GPL-3.0-or-later" is the correct SPDX identifier in this case.
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- Used in projects where a strong copyleft license will result in
- For new projects in which a weakly reciprocal sharing regime makes sense, we recommend licensing under "LGPL-3.0-or-later". Version 2.1 of LGPL is also OK. We have several projects licensed under "LGPL-2.1-or-later" and the benefits brought about by 3.0 do not offset the hassle/risk to change licence, so we are leaving them as 2.1.
- Another good weakly reciprocal option is the [Mozilla Public License v2](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/).
- Permissive: a modern option for this licensing regime, including a patent licensing clause, is the [Apache v2](https://www.apache.org/licenses/) licence.