# Licensing decision and proposal history

The owner approved GNU GPL version 3 for original FrameBridge material after considering a community-oriented release. This preparation records the exact choice as **GPL-3.0-only**. Future FSF license versions are not selected automatically.

The earlier Apache-2.0 recommendation favored permissive reuse and commercial integration. It was a proposal, never a first-party license applied by the private preparation. It is superseded by the recorded GPL choice. Dependencies that use Apache or another license retain their applicable terms.

Read the active [LICENSE](../LICENSE), [licensing scope](../LICENSING.md) and [license status](../LICENSE-STATUS.md). Original blog article text explicitly identified for that purpose uses CC-BY-SA-4.0, with separate treatment of code and other media.

The remaining provenance, third-party and privacy review items are recorded in the [publication checklist](PUBLICATION-CHECKLIST.md). Choosing a project license does not close them or publish the project.