FSF Blogs: Protecting free software against confusing additional restrictions

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While we are pleased when people use GNU licenses to distribute and
license software, we condemn the use of unauthorized, confusing
derivatives of the licenses. In this article, we explain how users are
protected against restrictive terms introduced by people using GNU
licenses’ terms in drafting their own, new licenses.

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