The GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL, or simply GPL) are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end...
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The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers...
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The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free, copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, and based on the...
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by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU Project. It is similar to the GNU General Public License, giving readers the rights to copy, redistribute...
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The GNAT Modified General Public License (short: Modified GPL, GMGPL) is a version of the GNU General Public License specifically modified for compiled...
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outside the GNU Project by Linus Torvalds, and in December 1992, it was made available under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Combined with...
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middle ground between the permissive software BSD-style licenses and the GNU General Public License. As such, it allows the integration of MPL-licensed code...
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A GNU license or GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), is a series of widely-used free software licenses that guarantee end users the freedom to run, study...
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version 4.0 was released under the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. It fails the Debian Free Software Guidelines...
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2015. 1. MIT license 24%, 2. GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 23% Mitchell, Kyle E. (September 21, 2016). "The MIT License, Line by Line". /dev/lawyer...
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GNU tools led to the family of operating systems popularly known as Linux. Most of GNU is licensed under the GNU Project's own General Public License...
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business-friendly free software license, and features weaker copyleft provisions than licenses such as the GNU General Public License (GPL). The receiver of EPL-licensed...
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is maintained by developers on the GNU project. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Early versions of the Hurd were...
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Richard Stallman. Bison is free software and is available under the GNU General Public License, with an exception (discussed below) allowing its generated code...
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either license (CPL or GPL), one must make the source code of a modified program available to others. CPL, like the GNU Lesser General Public License, allows...
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such license (the "GNU Emacs Copying Permission Notice") was used for GNU Emacs in 1985, which was revised into the "GNU Emacs General Public License" in...
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Free Software Foundation (redirect from GNU Press)
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are far more often licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), for example, the GNU C Library, GNU gettext and FLTK. A developer of an...
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Copyleft (redirect from Viral license)
copyleft licenses include the GNU General Public License (GPL), originally written by Richard Stallman, which was the first software copyleft license to see...
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licensing scheme that would address perceived incompatibilities of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) with the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU...
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compatible with the GNU General Public License and allows linking with files released entirely as proprietary software. The license does require that if...
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batch-oriented language. As part of the GNU Project, it is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The project was conceived around...
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GPL linking exception (redirect from Classpath license)
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Richard Stallman (redirect from Gnu founder)
Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote all versions of the GNU General Public License. Stallman launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to write a Unix-like computer...
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that company's TIBET product line. The RPL was inspired by the GNU General Public License (GPL) and authored to explicitly remove what the RPL's authors...
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Helix (multimedia project) (redirect from RealNetworks Public Source License)
Helix Player are licensed under the popular GNU General Public License (GPL) free and open source license. Use of the RDT, the default proprietary Real...
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described as an "open-source license" by the Open Source Initiative. The IPL differs from the GNU General Public License (GPL), in that it places the...
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component tools are free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License with special license exceptions permitting its use with proprietary software...
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compatibility with popular free software licences such as the GNU General Public License. The first IDABC software packages mentioned are CIRCA groupware...
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the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 "GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation". "MIT License". 31...
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