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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • middle ground between the permissive software BSD-style licenses and the GNU General Public License. So under the terms of the MPL, it allows the integration...
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  • gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL : Linking with the GNU GPLv3 "the GNU General Public License version 3". https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html :...
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    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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    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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    Stallman started the Free Software Foundation and wrote the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) in 1989. By the early 1990s, many of the programs required...
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    Apache License 2.0: 16%; 4. GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0: 9%; 5. BSD License 2.0 (3-clause, New or Revised) License: 6%; 6. GNU Lesser General Public...
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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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    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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  • disclaimer. Examples include the GNU All-permissive License, MIT License, BSD licenses, Apple Public Source License and Apache license. As of 2016,[update] the...
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    Inc., Xvid is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This also means that unlike the DivX codec, which is only available...
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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • computer architectures. GAS is free software released under the GNU General Public License v3. The first version of GAS was released in 1986–1987. It was...
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    software under the GNU General Public License. When the Linux kernel proved to be a viable solution, development of GNU Hurd slowed, at times alternating...
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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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    been used in numerous contexts. GNU Chess is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or any later version,...
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