After a lot of reflection from the team and board members at Cob:web-Aclevo, we have discussed and come to an agreement that we should make the switch from MIT Licenses to the GNU General Public License 3.0 (also referred to as: GPL or GPL3).

The reason for this is that we feel that:

• The MIT license is too permissive
• It would allow for anyone to incorporate our projects and code within proprietary software.
• The switch to GPL3 will ensure that we are able to ensure that free software remains free.

Our goal is to campaign for accessible FOSS projects that people love, use and enjoy. The switch to the GNU General Public License will ensure that we can continue to provide free software projects. It will also ensure that any changes, forks or redistributions, will be required to remain completely free and open source under the GPL.

(This article was copied and modified from the original that can be found on The Internet Archive.)