[Savannah-cvs] [LicensingRequirements] (edit) mention LGPL*-only conversion to GPL, other English fixes.

[karlberry]

??changed:
-  Your license should be compatible with the GNU GPL, current version or 
later. Exception: Affero GPL.
  Your license should be compatible with the GNU GPL, current version or later. 
 (This includes LGPL*-only, since all LGPL versions can be converted to any 
version of the GPL.  Of course, we strongly recommend against using LGPL*-only. 
 And GPL*-only is not acceptable.)

??changed:
- These licenses are the ones that the GNU project use for its own projects, 
and recommend for everybody else to use. They are also the most widespread, and 
being incompatible with them is a practical problem, because you would then be 
unable to combine code under those license with yours, and vice versa, even if 
it is free software.
 These licenses are the ones that the GNU project uses for its own packages, 
and recommends for everybody else to use. They are also the most widespread, 
and being incompatible with them is a practical problem, because you would then 
be unable to combine code under those license with yours, and vice versa, even 
if it is free software.

--removed:
- The Affero GPL is a license prototype, compatible with the current draft of 
the GNU GPL v3. (Its goal was to deal with the issues with ASPs or Application 
Service Providers - that is, offering free software legally through a web 
interface, without giving the freedom to study, modify and share that software 
to the end user.)
-

??changed:
- https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4303 describes more 
rational with requiring the GFDL for the manuals' license, and need to be 
merged here.
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- Your project depencies need to be compatible with the license you chose. This 
is not really a Savannah requirement, but doing otherwise would make your 
project legally inconsistent, and as such not freely usable.
 https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4303 describes more 
rationale with respect to requiring the GFDL for the manuals' license (and 
needs to be merged here).

 Your project dependencies also need to be compatible with the license you 
chose. This is not a Savannah-specific requirement, because doing otherwise 
would make your project legally inconsistent, and as such not freely usable.

??changed:
- address@hidden, that is, the FSF Licensing Team, may offer suggestions to 
find the best way to work around a legal issue.
-
- For non-software, non-documentation works, when we say "free" this refers to 
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html . Licenses listed as "free" at 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html (whatever the kind of work) are 
good exemples.
 address@hidden, that is, the FSF Licensing Team, may offer suggestions to find 
the best way to handle legal issues.

 For non-software, non-documentation works, when we say "free" this refers to 
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html . Licenses listed as "free" at 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html (whatever the kind of work) are 
good examples.

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