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License proliferation leads to complicated license compatibility relationships [1].

Imagine someone wanted to, say, provide native support in GNUradio - as has been done for the RTL-SDR. It's impossible unless you relicense one or the other.

Of course, the code's being given away for free; you could argue one shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. And it's quite possible no-one would attempt such a merge even if it was permitted by the license.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation#License_...




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