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In the UK the Queen approved the agreement on Thursday. By contrast, GPLv3 and AGPLv3 each include clauses (in section 13 of each license) that together achieve a form of mutual compatibility for the two licenses. These clauses explicitly allow the “conveying” of a work formed by linking code licensed under the one license against code licensed under the other license,[3] despite the licenses otherwise not allowing relicensing under the terms of each other.[4] In this way, the copyleft of each license is relaxed to allow distributing such combinations.[4] This is why, by Black Duck’s own analysis of over two million open source projects, permissive licenses power over 50% of all open source projects (and even more if we recognize that GPL 2.0 licensing effectively acts like a permissive license in cloud computing contexts): Reading Black Duck Software’s newest paean to the Affero General Public License (AGPL) (“The Quietly Accelerating Adoption of the AGPL”), one ....