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IzPack license changes !
After a lot of discussions on the IzPack mailing-lists[1], we have decided to switch from the GNU GPL to the Apache Software License 2.0. This will be effective starting from IzPack 3.8.

You might ask why such a change ? In short: the GPL is not well-adapted to the Java software world. We have a lot of excellent libraries available under Apache licenses, IBM licenses and so on. All of these licenses are not compatible with the GPL, forcing us to re-invent the wheel all the time.