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 users...
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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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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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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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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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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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Retrieved November 19, 2015. 1. MIT license 24%, 2. GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 23% "Global license trends". GitHub Innovation Graph. January 8, 2025...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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released under a free software license (the GNU General Public License), they released the Duke graphics under the free BSD license at the same time. A new Duke...
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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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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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PostScript language interpreter. The license was derived from the GNU General Public License, but differs on two key points: The source code must be included...
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Free Software Foundation (redirect from GNU Press)
distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License. The FSF was incorporated in Boston where it is also based. From...
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GPL in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. GPL is the GNU General Public License, a free software license. GPL may also refer to: Garena Premier League, a...
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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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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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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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under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain which is used for most projects related to GNU and the Linux...
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MinGW (redirect from Minimalist GNU for Windows)
and because the runtime libraries are not distributed using the GNU General Public License (GPL), it is not necessary to distribute the source code with...
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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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different licenses. For example, software that combined code released under version 1.1 of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) with code under the GNU General Public...
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