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  GNU General Public License - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project.
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a modified version of the GPL, intended for some software libraries.
The version numbers diverged in 1999 when version 2.1 of the LGPL was released, which renamed it the Lesser General Public License to reflect its place in the GNU philosophy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GNU_General_Public_License   (3107 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: GNU General Public License
Generally speaking, free software license is a phrase used by the free software movement to mean any software license that meets the free software definition of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is an FSF approved free software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the MIT License.
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/GNU-General-Public-License   (5780 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
This Library General Public License is intended to permit developers of non-free programs to use free libraries, while preserving your freedom as a user of such programs to change the free libraries that are incorporated in them.
Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice.
nsuml.sourceforge.net /copyleft.txt   (3042 words)

  
 GNU General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
The GNU General Public License (GPL) in plain text format
The GNU General Public License (GPL) as an appendix in DocBook format
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
www.gnu.org /copyleft/gpl.html   (2670 words)

  
 OODL: Licence: GNU General Public Licence for Libraries (LGPL), Version2
It also counts as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence the version number 2.1.] Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it.
This license, the GNU Lesser General Public License, applies to certain designated libraries, and is quite different from the ordinary General Public License.
Although the Lesser General Public License is Less protective of the users' freedom, it does ensure that the user of a program that is linked with the Library has the freedom and the wherewithal to run that program using a modified version of the Library.
www.mail-archive.com /opencard@metacard.com/msg00737.html   (3585 words)

  
 FSF - Licenses
Between version 2 and 2.1, the GNU LGPL was renamed from the GNU Library General Public License to the GNU Lesser General Public License to better reflect its actual purpose.
The ATandT Public License is a non-free license.
This is a Free Documentation license that is incompatible with the GNU FDL.
www.fsf.org /licensing/licenses   (6054 words)

  
 ipedia.com: GNU General Public License Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The purpose of the GPL is to grant the user rights to copy, modify, and redistribute programs (normally prohibited by copyright), and to ensure that those rights are preserved in derivative works via a copyleft mechanism, a concept created by Richard Stallman.
Note that there is no "GNU Public License" — this is a common misnomer, perhaps based on the use of product names in the names of other licenses such as the Mozilla Public License and the IBM Public License.
[1] Its prototype is the Affero General Public License [1].
www.ipedia.com /gnu_general_public_license.html   (2254 words)

  
 LGPL
The GNU Lesser General Public Licence (the LGPL) is a special software licence published by the Free Software Foundation.
This licence has been used for some of the programs and libraries that can be downloaded from this website (see also the ordinary General Public Licence).
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
www.object-refinery.com /lgpl.html   (3782 words)

  
 GNU Library General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
If you develop a new library, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, we recommend making it free software that everyone can redistribute and change.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
www.gate.ac.uk /gate/licence.html   (3603 words)

  
 Open Source Initiative OSI - The wxWindows Library Licence:Licensing
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this licence document, but changing it is not allowed.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
If you copy code from files distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence or the GNU Library General Public Licence into a copy of this library, as this licence permits, the exception does not apply to the code that you add in this way.
www.ccp14.ac.uk /ccp/web-mirrors/ghostscript/licenses/wxwindows.php   (380 words)

  
 JMangler Downloads
All parts of JMangler 3.0.3 are available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence.
All parts of JMangler 3.0.2 are available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence.
All parts of JMangler2 are available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence.
javalab.cs.uni-bonn.de /research/jmangler/download.html   (252 words)

  
 Licence for use and distribution of my software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This licence is, however, void in the Czech Republic.
Czech users (and users in countries with copyright law similar to that of the Czech Republic) should apply the licence in modification made by Zastudena.cz.
The licence as well as all accompanying files are written in the Czech language only.
icebearsoft.euweb.cz /czgpl   (126 words)

  
 Gnu Public Licence
This Licence applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public Licence.
For example, if a patent licence would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this Licence would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and a licencee cannot impose that choice.
www.lunqual.de /gpl.html   (2189 words)

  
 LEOX.org - Free Hardware and Software Resources for System on Chip
uClinux kernel is licenced under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), like the Linux kernel because it is a derivated work.
The uClinux/Sparc kernel is booting and a shell is running (see the boot sequence), but from now there is still few C library functionalities and only the shell ported to the Sparc MMUless architecture.
RTEMS is licenced under a modified version of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).
www.leox.org /resources/sw.html   (1458 words)

  
 Open Source Initiative OSI - The GPL:Licensing
By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users.
The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License.
If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License.
www.opensource.org /licenses/gpl-license.php   (2608 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Under the terms of the wxWindows Licence, you as a user are not obliged to distribute wxWindows source code with your products, if you distribute these products in binary form.
The wxWindows Licence establishes the copyright for the code and related material, and it gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the library.
WXWINDOWS LIBRARY LICENCE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
www.golfonline.hu /doc/libwxgtk2.2/copyright   (794 words)

  
 General Public Licence threatens software market, claims SCO chief   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He predicted that the proprietary and open-source worlds were on a "collision course" that would ultimately result in the end of the GPL licence.
IBM was to blame for the threat to the GPL because it had raised the issue of GPL violations in an August lawsuit against SCO, McBride claimed.
That suit was filed in response to a lawsuit filed by SCO against IBM in March that claimed IBM's contributions to the Linux operating system violated IBM's Unix licence.
www.computerweekly.com /Article126638.htm   (462 words)

  
 The Object Refinery - Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
JFreeChart is available for download including source code subject to the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL).
JWorkbook is available for download including source code subject to the terms of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).
JFinance is available for download including source code subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
www.object-refinery.com /libraries.html   (294 words)

  
 GNU GPL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 0.
It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
www.babbage.demon.co.uk /copying.html   (2343 words)

  
 Nethack General Public Licence
Si son auteur interdit toute modification de la licence, il a néanmoins tenu à préciser que cette licence pouvait servir de base de travail pour n’importe quel autre logiciel.
L’esprit de la licence GPL est déjà là, même si la GNU General Public Licence n’a pas encore été publiée au moment où Stephenson écrit la NGPL.
By contrast, our general public license is intended to give everyone the right to share NetHack.
www.boson2x.org /article.php3?id_article=132   (812 words)

  
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GNU Library General Public Licence as published by the
For this purpose the words "software" and "library" in the GNU Library General Public Licence are taken to mean any and all computer programs computer files data results documents and other copyright information available from the RepRap project.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public Licence along with RepRap (in reports, it will be one of the appendices, for example); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, or see
staff.bath.ac.uk /ensab/replicator/gpl.html   (175 words)

  
 www.jfree.org - GPL
A software licence published by the Free Software Foundation.
The GNU General Public Licence (the "GPL") is a special software licence published by the Free Software Foundation.
This licence has been used for some of the programs and libraries that can be downloaded from this website (see also the Lesser General Public Licence).
www.jfree.org /gpl.php   (2636 words)

  
 GNU General Public Licence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
See the GNU General Public License below for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
www.openhealth.com /gpl.html   (2603 words)

  
 Creative Commons Deed
The GNU General Public License is a Free Software license.
Any translation of the GNU General Public License must be accompanied by the GNU General Public License.
This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full GNU General Public License).
creativecommons.org /licenses/GPL/2.0   (256 words)

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