You use a GPL-3.0 dependency and still ship under this license — Unlicense
- 1 · You publish under UnlicenseThe Unlicense
- 2 · The situationYou use a GPL-3.0 dependency and still ship under this licenseYou want to do this
- 3 · ResultBlocked by license
Relevant clause
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Same scenario, other licenses
- Blocked by license MIT
- Blocked by license BSD-3
- Blocked by license Apache-2.0
- Blocked by license MPL-2.0
- Blocked by license LGPL-3.0
- Allowed GPL-3.0
- Allowed AGPL-3.0
- Blocked by license MulanPSL-2.0
- Blocked by license SSPL-1.0
- Blocked by license BSL-1.1
- Blocked by license ELv2
- Blocked by license BSD-2
- Blocked by license ISC
- Blocked by license Zlib
- Blocked by license Boost-1.0
- Blocked by license MIT-0
- Blocked by license PostgreSQL
- Blocked by license Unicode-3.0
- Blocked by license Apache-2.0+LLVM
- Blocked by license GPL-2.0
- Blocked by license GPL-2.0+CPE
- Blocked by license LGPL-2.1
- Blocked by license EPL-2.0
- Blocked by license EPL-1.0
- Blocked by license CDDL-1.0
- Blocked by license APSL-2.0
- Blocked by license Artistic-2.0
- Allowed Perl-5
- Blocked by license LPPL-1.3c
- Blocked by license FSL-1.1
- Blocked by license RSALv2
- Blocked by license Confluent CL
- Blocked by license UPL-1.0
Other scenarios for Unlicense
- AllowedA1 A cloud vendor sells your project as a managed service
- AllowedA2 Someone forks it and distributes a closed-source competitor
- AllowedA3 Embedded in a closed-source SaaS backend (not distributed)
- AllowedA4 Linked into a closed-source app or firmware and distributed
- Not addressedA5 Someone promotes a modified version with your name or trademark
- AllowedA6 Someone sells unmodified copies
- Not addressedB1 A user sues you for patent infringement and keeps using the code
- Not addressedB2 A contributor asserts patents on their contributed code
- Not addressedB3 A cross-border dispute: governing law and venue
- AllowedC1 You later relicense or sell commercial licenses (contributors signed no CLA)
- AllowedC2 Your code is merged into a GPL-3.0 project
- AllowedC4 The project is abandoned and someone forks it to continue
- Blocked by licenseC5 You want to block only big companies or competitors
- Not addressedC6 Key code was written by an employee and the employer objects
- AllowedD1 Someone removes copyright or attribution notices
- AllowedD2 Someone modifies files without marking the changes
- AllowedD3 Internal modification, no distribution and no external service
- AllowedD4 Used for military, surveillance or other uses you object to
- Not addressedD5 Used by a sanctioned entity
- Not addressedD6 Your code is used to train an AI model