GNU General Public License
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GPL: 'Share and share-alike' / Copyleft "intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software" "free software.. referring to freedom, not price" "To protect your rights.. restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights" Two steps: (1) copyright the software, (2) license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software "for each author's protection and ours.. there is no warranty" "any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all" |
10Nov03, by Project (Freshmeat) and by OSI License used (SourceForge), 70% of Linux software is GPL'd. (Wheeler 19Sep04) "As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin "It is thought that Linux has not suffered the same fragmentation as Unix because it is copylefted" (Is copyleft "viral"? Wikipedia) GNU Free Documentation License GFDL Wikipedia "the free encyclopedia" Freenet Project "Distributed Anonymous Information Storage & Retrieval System" etc... |