RealNetworks Public Source License

RealNetworks Public Source LicenseAuthor| RealNetworks

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DFSG compatible| No [1]
FSF approved| Yes [2]
OSI approved| Yes [3]
GPL compatible| No [2]
Copyleft| Yes
Linking from code with a different license| Yes

The RealNetworks Public Source License (RPSL) is a software licence. It has been approved as a free software licence by both Free Software Foundation[2] and Open Source Initiative[3] (OSI), but it is incompatible with the GPL[2] and the Debian Free Software Guidelines.[1]

The RPSL is used by the Helix project.[why?]

## See also

* RealNetworks

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The DFSG and Software Licenses". https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses. "RPSL, licenses that is DFSG-incompatible."
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "FSF's licence list". https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html. "The RPSL is a free software license that is GPL-incompatible for a number of reasons..."
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Open Source Licenses by Category". 19 September 2006. https://www.opensource.org/licenses/category. "RPSL, Open Source Licenses which have successfully gone through the approval process and comply with the Open Source Definition."

## External links

* RealNetworks Public Source License text

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