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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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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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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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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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own copyright license, the Emacs General Public License, the first copyleft license. This later evolved into the GNU General Public License, which is now...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A GPL linking exception modifies the GNU General Public License (GPL) in a way that enables software projects which provide library code to be "linked...
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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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History of Linux (section Linux under the GNU GPL)
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