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by CuriousCosmic 1096 days ago
> It looks like you may have made a mistake similar to the ones described in https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#ReleaseNotOrigi... and https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLIncompatible.... Basically, it's generally not useful to say "if you meet some condition, then you can have this software under the GPL", because any one person who meets the condition can basically end up making it GPL for everyone.

This should not be an issue.

The condition they provided was effectively "if you want to use GPLv3 you can use GPLv3". That's perfectly acceptable for GPL. What they are doing on top of this is saying "if you can't/don't want to use GPLv3 but meet some other conditions, we will dual license it under one of these other licenses for you".