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public under a free software license, "then lets customers pay for permission to use the same code under different terms, for instance allowing its inclusion in proprietary applications". Stallman considered selling exceptions "acceptable since the 1990s, and on occasion I've suggested it to companies. Sometimes this approach has made it possible for important programs to become free software". Although the FSF does not practice selling exceptions, a comparison with the X11 license (which is a non-copyleft free software license) is proposed for suggesting that this commercialization technique should be regarded as ethically acceptable. Releasing a given program under a non-copyleft free software license would permit embedding the code in proprietary software. Stallman comments that "either we have to conclude that it's wrong to release anything under the X11 license—a conclusion I find unacceptably extreme—or reject this implication. Using a non-copyleft license is weak, and usually an inferior choice, but it's not wrong. In other words, selling exceptions permits some embedding in proprietary software, and the X11 license permits even more embedding. If this doesn't make the X11 license unacceptable, it doesn't make selling exceptions unacceptable".
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appear to forget. For instance one would think that the incompatibility of the GPLv2 with the Apache
Software License 2.0 should be a thing of the past now that everything upgrades to GPLv3, but it turns out that enough people are either stuck with GPLv2 only or do not agree with the GPLv3 that some Apache Software licensed projects are required to migrate. For instance Twitter's Bootstrap is currently migrating from ASL2.0 to MIT precisely because some people still need GPLv2 compatibility. Among those projects that were affected were Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, the MoinMoin Wiki and others. And even that case shows that people don't care that much about licenses any more as Joomla 3 just bundled bootstrap even though they were not licenses in a compatible way (GPLv2 vs ASL 2.0). The other traditional case of things not being GPL compatible is the OpenSSL project which has a license that does not go well with the GPL. That license is also still incompatible with the GPLv3. The whole ordeal is particularly interesting as some not so nice parties have started doing license trolling through GPL licenses.
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1236:... These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
3001:"Walter van Holst is a legal consultant at the Dutch IT consulting company mitopics... Walter instead chose to use data from a software index, namely Freecode... Walter's 2009 data set consisted of 38,674 projects... The final column in the table shows the number of projects licensed under "any version of the GPL". In addition, Walter presented pie charts that showed the proportion of projects under various common-licenses. Notable in those data sets was that, whereas in 2009 the proportion of projects licensed GPLv2-only and GPLv3 was respectively 3% and 2%, by 2013, those numbers had risen to 7% and 5%."
1194:; more important is the question about whether the software was intended to interface with client software and/or libraries. He states, "The primary indication of whether a new program is a derivative work is whether the source code of the original program was used , modified, translated or otherwise changed in any way to create the new program. If not, then I would argue that it is not a derivative work," and lists numerous other points regarding intent, bundling, and linkage mechanism. He further argues on his firm's website that such "market-based" factors are more important than the linking technique.
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offer to obtain the source code that the user got when they received the pre-compiled binary under the GPL. The second section of version 2 and the fifth section of version 3 also require giving "all recipients a copy of this
License along with the Program". Version 3 of the license allows making the source code available in additional ways in fulfillment of the seventh section. These include downloading source code from an adjacent network server or by peer-to-peer transmission, provided that is how the compiled code was available and there are "clear directions" on where to find the source code.
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1256:... A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate.
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prevent this, GPLv1 stated that modified versions, as a whole, had to be distributed under the terms of GPLv1. Therefore, software distributed under the terms of GPLv1 could be combined with software under more permissive terms, as this would not change the terms under which the whole could be distributed. However, software distributed under GPLv1 could not be combined with software distributed under a more restrictive license, as this would conflict with the requirement that the whole be distributable under the terms of GPLv1.
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2442:, attorney and computer specialist, praised in 2007 how the community using the Apache license was now able to work together with the GPL community in a compatible manner, as the problems of GPLv2 compatibility with Apache licensed software were resolved with the GPLv3. He said, "I predict that one of the biggest success stories of GPLv3 will be the realization that the entire universe of free and open-source software can thus be combined into comprehensive open source solutions for customers worldwide."
1448:, contending that the GPL is an illegal attempt to fix prices (at zero). The suit was dismissed in March 2006, on the grounds that Wallace had failed to state a valid antitrust claim; the court noted that "the GPL encourages, rather than discourages, free competition and the distribution of computer operating systems, the benefits of which directly pass to consumers". Wallace was denied the possibility of further amending his complaint, and was ordered to pay the FSF's legal expenses.
1570:, the maker of an office suite that included Ghostscript. Artifex offers two licenses for Ghostscript; one is the AGPL License and the other is a commercial license. Hancom did not acquire a commercial license from Artifex nor did it release its office suite as free software. Artifex sued Hancom in US District Court and made two claims. First, Hancom's use of Ghostscript was a violation of copyright; and second, Hancom's use of Ghostscript was a license violation. Judge
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software license whatsoever. So if you write a new program, and you have no commitments at all about what license you want to use, saving only that it be a free license, you cannot include GFDL'd text. The GNU FDL, as it stands today, does not meet the Debian Free
Software Guidelines. There are significant problems with the license, as detailed above; and, as such, we cannot accept works licensed under the GNU FDL into our distribution.
5856:... There is strong concern that these new additional requirements might not match the industrial and economic reality of our time, especially in the market of consumer electronics. It is our belief that changing our licensing terms to GPL version 3 would currently not be in the best interest of our community as a whole. Consequently, we plan to keep distributing future versions of VLC media player under the terms of the GPL version 2.
836:, then the custom software components need not be licensed under GPL and need not make their source code available; even if the underlying operating system used is licensed under the GPL, applications running on it are not considered derivative works. Only if GPL licensed parts are used in a program (and the program is distributed), then all other source code of the program needs to be made available under the same license terms. The
604:(FSF) announced work on version 3 of the GPL (GPLv3). On 16 January 2006, the first "discussion draft" of GPLv3 was published, and the public consultation began. The public consultation was originally planned for nine to fifteen months, but ultimately lasted eighteen months, with four drafts being published. The official GPLv3 was released by the FSF on 29 June 2007. GPLv3 was written by Richard Stallman, with legal counsel from
1585:, the creator of chess software, for violating the GPLv3 license. It was claimed that Chessbase had made only slight modifications to the Stockfish code and sold the new engines (Fat Fritz 2 and Houdini 6) to their customers. Additionally, Fat Fritz 2 was marketed as if it was an innovative engine. ChessBase had infringed on the license by not distributing these products as Free Software in accordance with the GPL.
1372:. NuSphere had allegedly violated MySQL's copyright by linking MySQL's GPL licensed code with NuSphere Gemini table without complying with the license. After a preliminary hearing before Judge Patti Saris on 27 February 2002, the parties entered settlement talks and eventually settled. After the hearing, FSF commented that "Judge Saris made clear that she sees the GNU GPL to be an enforceable and binding license."
2169:, and certain other software distribution platforms (on smartphones as well as PCs). The problem lies in the right "to make a copy for your neighbour", as this right is violated by digital rights management systems embedded within the platform to prevent copying of paid software. Even if the application is free in the application store in question, it might result in a violation of that application store's terms.
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can be used by both proprietary and free software. This goal has been successfully handled so far by LGPLv2.1, and there is a multitude of libraries using that license. Now we have LGPLv3 as the latest, and the question is how successful is LGPLv3 on this goal? In my opinion, very little. If we assume that its primary goal is to be used by free software, then it blatantly fails that.
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2807:... This is the previous version of the GNU GPL: a free software license, and a copyleft license. ... GPLv2 is, by itself, not compatible with GPLv3. However, most software released under GPLv2 allows you to use the terms of later versions of the GPL as well. When this is the case, you can use the code under GPLv3 to make the desired combination. ...
4541:"What constitutes combining two parts into one program? This is a legal question, which ultimately judges will decide. We believe that a proper criterion depends both on the mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, function calls within a shared address space, etc.) and the semantics of the communication (what kinds of information are interchanged)." on gnu.org
2719:... This is the latest version of the GNU GPL: a free software license, and a copyleft license. ... GPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2 by itself. However, most software released under GPLv2 allows you to use the terms of later versions of the GPL as well. When this is the case, you can use the code under GPLv3 to make the desired combination. ...
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version. The licensee is allowed to charge a fee for this service or do this free of charge. This latter point distinguishes the GPL from software licenses that prohibit commercial redistribution. The FSF argues that free software should not place restrictions on commercial use, and the GPL explicitly states that GPL works may be sold at any price.
1428:... This is independent of the questions whether the licensing conditions of the GPL have been effectively agreed upon between plaintiff and defendant or not. If the GPL were not agreed upon by the parties, defendant would notwithstanding lack the necessary rights to copy, distribute, and make the software 'netfilter/iptables' publicly available.
886:), except under the terms of the license. One is only required to adhere to the terms of the GPL if one wishes to exercise rights normally restricted by copyright law, such as redistribution. Conversely, if one distributes copies of the work without abiding by the terms of the GPL (for instance, by keeping the source code secret), they can be
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In some ways, Linux was the project that really made the split clear between what the FSF is pushing which is very different from what open source and Linux has always been about, which is more of a technical superiority instead of a -- this religious belief in freedom," Torvalds told Zemlin. So, the
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Richard
Stallman wrote about the practice of selling license exceptions to free software licenses as an example of ethically acceptable commercialization practice. Selling exceptions here means that the copyright holder of a given software releases it (along with the corresponding source code) to the
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In 2006, Richard
Stallman responded in an interview that Mundie's metaphor of a "virus" is wrong as software under the GPL does not "attack" or "infect" other software. Accordingly, Stallman believes that comparing the GPL to a virus is inappropriate, and that a better metaphor for software under the
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An "aggregate" consists of a number of separate programs, distributed together on the same CD-ROM or other media. The GPL permits you to create and distribute an aggregate, even when the licenses of the other software are non-free or GPL-incompatible. The only condition is that you cannot release the
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Copyright law has historically been used to prevent distribution of work by parties not authorized by the creator. Copyleft uses the same copyright laws to accomplish a very different goal. It grants rights to distribution to all parties insofar as they provide the same rights to subsequent ones, and
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To keep the license current, the GPL license includes an optional "any later version" clause, allowing users to choose between the original terms or the terms in new versions as updated by the FSF. Software projects licensed with the optional "or later" clause include the GNU Project, while the Linux
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LGPLv3 is the latest version of the GNU Lesser
General Public License. It follows the successful LGPLv2.1 license, and was released by Free Software Foundation as a counterpart to its GNU General Public License version 3. The goal of the GNU Lesser General Public Licenses is to provide software that
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It is not possible to borrow text from a GFDL'd manual and incorporate it in any free software program whatsoever. This is not a mere license incompatibility. It's not just that the GFDL is incompatible with this or that free software license: it's that it is fundamentally incompatible with any free
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No. Some of the requirements in GPLv3, such as the requirement to provide
Installation Information, do not exist in GPLv2. As a result, the licenses are not compatible: if you tried to combine code released under both these licenses, you would violate section 6 of GPLv2. However, if code is released
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questioned the relevance of GPL then for the FOSS ecosystem, stating: "We don't need the GPL anymore. It's based on the belief that open source software is weak and needs to be protected. Open source would be succeeding faster if the GPL didn't make lots of people nervous about adopting it." Richard
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distribution, and there is little evidence that they had any legal right to do so except under the terms of the GPL. In
February 2018, after federal circuit court judgement, appeal, and the case being (partially) remanded to the circuit court, the parties restated their remaining claims and provided
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The fourth section for version 2 of the license and the seventh section of version 3 require that programs distributed as pre-compiled binaries be accompanied by a copy of the source code, a written offer to distribute the source code via the same mechanism as the pre-compiled binary, or the written
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GPLv3 improved compatibility with several free software licenses such as the Apache
License, version 2.0, and the GNU Affero General Public License, which GPLv2 could not be combined with. However, GPLv3 software could only be combined and share code with GPLv2 software if the GPLv2 license used had
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a covered work if you are a party to an arrangement with a third party that is in the business of distributing software, under which you make payment to the third party based on the extent of your activity of conveying the work, and under which the third party grants, to any of the parties who would
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and for software libraries that essentially did the job of existing proprietary ones; when version 2 of the GPL (GPLv2) was released in June 1991, therefore, a second license – the GNU Library
General Public License – was introduced at the same time and numbered with version 2 to show that both were
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Viral property stimulates proliferation of licenses and contributes to the "GPL-enforced nightmare" -- a situation when many other licenses are logically incompatible with the GPL and make life unnecessary difficult for developers working in the Linux environment (KDE is a good example here, Python
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In August 2013, according to Black Duck Software, the website's data shows that the GPL license family is used by 54% of open-source projects, with a breakdown of the individual licenses shown in the following table. However, a later study in 2013 showed that software licensed under the GPL license
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Cisco settled the case six months later by agreeing "to appoint a Free Software Director for Linksys" to ensure compliance, "to notify previous recipients of Linksys products containing FSF programs of their rights under the GPL," to make source code of FSF programs freely available on its website,
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Where's the line between two separate programs, and one program with two parts? This is a legal question, which ultimately judges will decide. We believe that a proper criterion depends both on the mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, function calls within a shared address space, etc.) and
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According to the FSF, "The GPL does not require you to release your modified version or any part of it. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them." However, if one releases a GPL-licensed entity to the public, there is an issue regarding linking: namely,
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The terms and conditions of the GPL must be made available to anybody receiving a copy of a work that has a GPL applied to it ("the licensee"). Any licensee who adheres to the terms and conditions is given permission to modify the work, as well as to copy and redistribute the work or any derivative
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The only one of any note that I'd like to point out directly is the clarification in the COPYING file, making it clear that it's only _that_particular version of the GPL that is valid for the kernel. This should not come as any surprise, as that's the same license that has been there since 0.12 or
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The current version (Discussion Draft 2) of GPLv3 on first reading fails the necessity test of section 1 on the grounds that there's no substantial and identified problem with GPLv2 that it is trying to solve. However, a deeper reading reveals several other problems with the current FSF draft: 5.1
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developer Rob Landley criticized that with the introduction of the GPLv3 the split between the open source and free software community became wider than ever. As the significantly extended GPLv3 is essentially incompatible with the GPLv2, compatibility between both is only given under the optional
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It is possible to use the GPL for text documents instead of computer programs, or more generally for all kinds of media, if it is clear what constitutes the source code (defined as "the preferred form of the work for making changes in it"). For manuals and textbooks, though, the FSF recommends the
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c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This License will therefore apply, along with any applicable Section 7 additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged. This License
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Those who do not accept the GPL's terms and conditions do not have permission, under copyright law, to copy or distribute GPL-licensed software or derivative works. However, if they do not redistribute the GPL licensed program, they may still use the software within their organization however they
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Copyleft applies only when a person seeks to redistribute the program. Developers may make private modified versions with no obligation to divulge the modifications, as long as they do not distribute the modified software to anyone else. Copyleft applies only to the software, and not to its output
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In 2001, VLC was released under the OSI-approved GNU General Public version 2, with the commonly-offered option to use 'any later version' thereof (though there was not any such later version at the time). Following the release by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) of the new version 3 of its GNU
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Both LibreCAD and FreeCAD both want to use LibreDWG and have patches available for supporting the DWG file format library, but can't integrate them. The programs have dependencies on the popular GPLv2 license while the Free Software Foundation will only let LibreDWG be licensed for GPLv3 use, not
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On the other hand, the concept of a viral nature of the GPL was taken up by others later too. For instance, a 2008 article stated: "The GPL license is 'viral,' meaning any derivative work you create containing even the smallest portion of the previously GPL licensed software must also be licensed
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GPL-licensed applications are both available via the same system; the reason that the Mac App Store (and similar projects) is incompatible with GPL-licensed apps is not inherent in the concept of an app store, but is rather specifically due to Apple's terms-of-use requirement that all apps in the
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The Free Software Foundation (which holds the copyright of several notable GPL-licensed software products and of the license text itself) asserts that an executable that uses a dynamically linked library is indeed a derivative work. This does not, however, apply to separate programs communicating
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The text of the GPL is not itself under the GPL. The license's copyright disallows modification of the license. Copying and distributing the license is allowed since the GPL requires recipients to get "a copy of this License along with the Program". According to the GPL FAQ, anyone can make a new
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By contrast, pipes, sockets, and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs. So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex
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The mere act of communicating with other programs does not, by itself, require all software to be GPL; nor does distributing GPL software with non-GPL software. However, minor conditions must be followed that ensure the rights of GPL software are not restricted. The following is a quote from the
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form, such as in cases in which the author is less willing to make the source code available. The consensus was that while unethical, it was not considered a violation. The issue was clarified when the license was altered with v2 to require that the "preferred" version of the source code be made
394:. These licenses contained similar provisions to the modern GPL, but were specific to each program, rendering them incompatible, despite being the same license. Stallman's goal was to produce one license that could be used for any project, thus making it possible for many projects to share code.
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The License Compatibility Clusterfuck - When the GPL is involved the complexities of licensing becomes a non fun version of a riddle. So many things to consider and so many interactions to consider. And that GPL incompatibilities are still an issue that actively effects people is something many
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The second problem was that distributors might add restrictions, either to the license or by combining the software with other software that had other restrictions on distribution. The union of two sets of restrictions would apply to the combined work, thus adding unacceptable constrictions. To
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General Public License (GPL) on the 29th of June 2007, contributors to the VLC media player, and other software projects hosted at videolan.org, debated the possibility of updating the licensing terms for future version of the VLC media player and other hosted projects, to version 3 of the GPL.
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The FreeBSD project has stated that "a less publicized and unintended use of the GPL is that it is very favorable to large companies that want to undercut software companies. In other words, the GPL is well suited for use as a marketing weapon, potentially reducing overall economic benefit and
1219:) must also be GPL if it could reasonably be considered its own work. This point of view suggests that reasonably separate plugins, or plugins for software designed to use plugins, could be licensed under an arbitrary license if the work is GPLv2. Of particular interest is the GPLv2 paragraph:
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However, software running as an application program under a GPL-licensed operating system such as Linux is not required to be licensed under GPL or to be distributed with source-code availability—the licensing depends only on the used libraries and software components and not on the underlying
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by the FSF, claims by Cisco that they would correct, or were correcting, their compliance problems (not providing complete copies of all source code and their modifications), of repeated new violations being discovered and reported with more products, and lack of action by Linksys (a process
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In purely private (or internal) use—with no sales and no distribution—the software code may be modified and parts reused without requiring the source code to be released. For sales or distribution, the entire source code needs to be made available to end users, including any code changes and
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is permitted to be linked with any other code no matter what license that code has, though the LGPL does add additional requirements for the combined work. LGPLv3 and GPLv2-only can thus commonly not be linked, as the combined Code work would add additional LGPLv3 requirements on top of the
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Code licensed under several other licenses can be combined with a program under the GPL without conflict, as long as the combination of restrictions on the work as a whole does not put any additional restrictions beyond what GPL allows. In addition to the regular terms of the GPL, there are
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A year later on 7 November 2022, both parties reached an agreement and ended the dispute. In the near future ChessBase will no longer sell products containing Stockfish code, while informing their customers of this fact with an appropriate notice on their web pages. However, one year later,
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referred to Linux as "a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches". In response to Microsoft's attacks on the GPL, several prominent Free Software developers and advocates released a joint statement supporting the license. Microsoft has released
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The distribution rights granted by the GPL for modified versions of the work are not unconditional. When someone distributes a GPL licensed work plus their own modifications, the requirements for distributing the whole work cannot be any greater than the requirements that are in the GPL.
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of the technical protection measure "to the extent such circumvention is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the covered work". This means that users cannot be held liable for circumventing DRM implemented using GPLv3-licensed code under laws such as the U.S.
1778:(which can complicate font embedding, since the document could be considered 'linked' to the font; in other words, embedding a vector font in a document could force it to be released under the GPL, but a rasterized rendering of the font would not be subject to the GPL). The FSF provides
6964:... If the license were purely a cleaned up version of the GPLv2, there would be no incompatibility, the FSF would have no agenda involved in getting projects to update to the new license, and at the same time there would be no reason for projects to object to updating. Smooth sailing.
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draws a less optimistic conclusion on the GPL compatibility in the FOSS ecosystem: "When the GPL is involved the complexities of licensing becomes a non fun version of a riddle", also noting that the conflict between Apache License 2.0 and GPLv2 still has impact on the ecosystem.
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Defendant has infringed on the copyright of the plaintiff by offering the software 'netfilter/iptables' for download and by advertising its distribution, without adhering to the license conditions of the GPL. Said actions would only be permissible if the defendant had a license
652:, and restricted the anti-tivoization clauses to a legal definition of a "user" and a "consumer product". It also explicitly removed the section on "Geographical Limitations", the probable removal of this section having been announced at the launch of the public consultation.
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license using a modified version of the GPL as long as they use a different name for the license, do not mention "GNU", and remove the preamble, though the preamble can be used in a modified license if permission to use it is obtained from the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
905:. An alternative method of satisfying the copyleft is to provide a written offer to provide the source code on a physical medium (such as a CD) upon request. In practice, many GPL licensed programs are distributed over the Internet, and the source code is made available over
631:. Other changes related to internationalization, how license violations are handled, and how additional permissions could be granted by the copyright holder. The concept of "software propagation", as a term for the copying and duplication of software, was explicitly defined.
5733:... The real outcomes, however, are this: BusyBox will be GPLv2 only starting with the next release. It is generally accepted that stripping out the "or any later version" is legally defensible, and that the merging of other GPLv2-only code will force that issue in any case
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The FSF thus draws the line between "library" and "other program" via 1) "complexity" and "intimacy" of information exchange and 2) mechanism (rather than semantics), but resigns that the question is not clear-cut and that in complex situations, case law will decide.
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is not required to distribute its changes to the underlying software, because the modified web portal is not being redistributed but rather hosted, and also because the web portal output is also not a derivative work of the GPL licensed content management system.
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The GPL is one thing that almost everyone in the free and open-source software communities have in common. For that reason, the revision has the potential to highlight disagreements, differences in opinion, differences in business models, and differences in
364:-based systems, giving the programmers who contributed to the kernel the assurance that their work would benefit the whole world and remain free, rather than being exploited by software companies that would not have to give anything back to the community.
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Currently the decision to move from GPL v2 to GPL v3 is being hotly debated by many open source projects. According to Palamida, a provider of IP compliance software, there have been roughly 2489 open source projects that have moved from GPL v2 to later
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developers recommended (in a resolution adopted in 2006) to license documentation for their project under the GPL, because of the incompatibility of the GFDL with the GPL (text licensed under the GFDL cannot be incorporated into GPL software). Also, the
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The FSF permits people to create new licenses based on the GPL, as long as the derived licenses do not use the GPL preamble without permission. This is discouraged, however, since such a license might be incompatible with the GPL and causes a perceived
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of code under the GPL must themselves be under the GPL. Ambiguity arises with regard to using GPL libraries and bundling GPL software into a larger package (perhaps mixed into a binary via static linking). This is ultimately a question not of the GPL
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Version 1 of the GNU GPL, released on 25 February 1989, was written to protect against the two main methods by which software distributors restricted the freedoms that define free software. The first problem was that distributors might publish only
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derived from GPL-licensed work. Defendants argued that since it is impossible to maintain trade secrets while being compliant with GPL and distributing the work, they are not in breach of trade secrets. This argument was considered without ground.
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Richard Stallman and the FSF specifically encourage library writers to license under the GPL so that proprietary programs cannot use the libraries, in an effort to protect the free software world by giving it more tools than the proprietary world.
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In October 2021 SFC sued Vizio over breach of contract as an end user to request source code for Vizio's TVs, a federal judge has ruled in the interim that the GPL is an enforceable contract by end users as well as a license for copyright holders.
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that are executable, but not readable or modifiable by humans. To prevent this, GPLv1 stated that copying and distributing copies of any portion of the program must also make the human-readable source code available under the same licensing terms.
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analyst Matthew Aslett argued in a blog post that copyleft licenses went into decline and permissive licenses increased, based on statistics from Black Duck Software. Similarly, in February 2012 Jon Buys reported that among the top 50 projects on
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David A. Wheeler has advocated that free/open source software developers use only GPL-compatible licenses, because doing otherwise makes it difficult for others to participate and contribute code. As a specific example of license incompatibility,
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to reflect its place in the philosophy. The GPLv2 was also modified to refer to the new name of the LGPL, but its version number remained the same, resulting in the original GPLv2 not being recognised by the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX).
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This exactly mirrored the predictions given previously by the FSF's Eben Moglen. This ruling was important because it was the first time that a court had confirmed that violating terms of the GPL could be a copyright violation and established
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You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these
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The WTFPL is a parody of the GPL, which has a similar copyright header and list of permissions to modify (i.e. none), see for instance gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html. The purpose of the WTFPL wording is to give more freedom than the GPL
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version 2.0 compatibility (prior versions are incompatible), clarified the role of outside contractors, and made an exception to avoid the perceived problems of a Microsoft–Novell style agreement, saying in Section 11 paragraph 6 that:
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If the modules are included in the same executable file, they are definitely combined in one program. If modules are designed to run linked together in a shared address space, that almost surely means combining them into one program.
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ESR addresses the issue in terms of different goals and values—those of "open source," which do not include defending software users' freedom to share and change software. Perhaps he thinks the GNU GPL is not needed to achieve those
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The license includes instructions to specify "version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version" to allow the flexible optional use of either version 2 or 3, but some developers change this to specify "version 2" only.
2425:"or later" clause of the GPL, which was not taken for instance by the Linux kernel. Bruce Byfield noted that before the release of the GPLv3, the GPLv2 was a unifying element between the open-source and the free software community.
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b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this
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From the above chart it is clear that the GPL family is the highest used (I had miscalculated it as MIT before). The other major licenses are MIT, BSD, the LGPL family, Artistic (for Perl packages), LPPL (fo texlive packages),
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the source code of LGPL parts has to be made available—for the developer's own self-developed software components this is not required (even when the underlying operating system used is licensed under GPL, as is the case with
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Don't invent a straw man argument please. I consider licensing BusyBox under GPLv3 to be useless, unnecessary, overcomplicated, and confusing, and in addition to that it has actual downsides. 1) Useless: We're never dropping
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The GPL additionally states that a distributor may not impose "further restrictions on the rights granted by the GPL". This forbids activities such as distributing the software under a non-disclosure agreement or contract.
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If a user wants to combine code licensed under different versions of GPL, then this is only allowed if the code with the earlier GPL version includes an "or any later version" statement. For instance, the GPLv3-licensed
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lawyer has written that dynamic linking not being derivative "makes sense" but is not "clear-cut", and that evidence for good-intentioned dynamic linking can be seen by the existence of proprietary Linux kernel drivers.
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We don't need the GPL anymore. It's based on the belief that open source software is weak and needs to be protected. Open source would be succeeding faster if the GPL didn't make lots of people nervous about adopting
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in Canada, presented a talk in 2013 about the methodological challenges in determining which are the most widely used free software licenses, and showed how he could not replicate the result from Black Duck Software.
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code that is part of the submitted code used open-source components licensed under the GPL and was originally statically linked to proprietary binary parts, the latter being inadmissible in GPL-licensed software.
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Stallman replied: "GPL is designed to ... ensure that every user of a program gets the essential freedoms—to run it, to study and change the source code, to redistribute copies, and to publish modified versions
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family has increased, and that even the data from Black Duck Software has shown a total increase of software projects licensed under GPL. The study used public information gathered from repositories of the
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You may convey a work based on the Program or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of Section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
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An analysis of whitesourcesoftware.com in April 2018 of the FOSS ecosystem saw the GPLv3 on third place (18%) and the GPLv2 on fourth place (11%), after MIT license (26%) and Apache 2.0 license (21%).
7132:... We would be wise to remember that the potential for the GPL to hinder our ability to work together is far more dangerous than the even the most radical change textual change the FSF might suggest.
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The FSF differentiates on how the plugin is being invoked. If the plugin is invoked through dynamic linkage and it performs function calls to the GPL program then it is most likely a derivative work.
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store utilize Apple DRM restrictions. Ubuntu's app store does not demand any such requirement: "These terms do not limit or restrict your rights under any applicable open source software licenses."
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The original GPL was written by Richard Stallman in 1989, for use with programs released as part of the GNU project. It was based on a unification of similar licenses used for early versions of
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James E.J. Bottomley; Mauro Carvalho Chehab; Thomas Gleixner; Christoph Hellwig; Dave Jones; Greg Kroah-Hartman; Tony Luck; Andrew Morton; Trond Myklebust; David Woodhouse (15 September 2006).
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to the FSF (which seldom happens except for programs that are part of the GNU project). Only the individual copyright holders have the authority to sue when a license violation is suspected.
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the optional "or later" clause and the software was upgraded to GPLv3. While the "GPLv2 or any later version" clause is considered by FSF as the most common form of licensing GPLv2 software,
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This aimed to make such future deals ineffective. The license was also meant to cause Microsoft to extend the patent licenses it granted to Novell customers for the use of GPLv3 software to
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on freecode.com "The Freecode site has been moved to a static state effective 18 June 2014 due to low traffic levels and so that folks will focus on more useful endeavors than site upkeep."
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In 2007, the third version of the license (GPLv3) was released to address some perceived problems with the second version (GPLv2) which were discovered during the latter's long-time usage.
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all contain GPL-licensed software apps, in some cases even when the core project does not permit GPL-licensed code in the base system (for instance OpenBSD). In other cases, such as the
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According to Richard Stallman, the major change in GPLv2 was the "Liberty or Death" clause, as he calls it – Section 7. The section says that licensees may distribute a GPL-covered work
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he only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
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The "or any later version" clause is sometimes known as a "lifeboat clause" since it allows combinations between different versions of GPL-licensed software to maintain compatibility.
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At the time, the decision seemed sensible in the face of a deadlock. But now, GPLv2 is used for 42.5% of free software, and GPLv3 for less than 6.5%, according to Black Duck Software.
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In 2011, four years after the release of the GPLv3, 6.5% of all open-source license projects are GPLv3 while 42.5% are GPLv2 according to Black Duck Software data. Following in 2011
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7.1 found that 53% of the source code was licensed under the GPL. As of 2003, about 68% of all projects and 82.1% of the open source industry certified licensed projects listed on
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In 2011, it was noticed that GNU Emacs had been accidentally releasing some binaries without corresponding source code for two years, in opposition to the intended spirit of the
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maintainer Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos similarly argued, "If we assume that its primary goal is to be used by free software, then it blatantly fails that", after he re-licensed
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After the release of the GPLv3 in June 2007, adoption of this new GPL version was much discussed and some projects decided against upgrading. For instance the Linux kernel,
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Second, the war between Linus Torvalds and other Kernel developers and the Free Software Foundation over GPLv3 is continuing, with Torvalds saying he's fed up with the FSF.
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became concerned over problems in the GPLv2 license that could let someone exploit GPL-licensed software in ways contrary to the license's intent. These problems included
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GPL Version 3 reflects the FSF's goals and the GPL Version 2 pretty closely matches what I think a license should do and so right now, Version 2 is where the kernel is.
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stated that they believed the GPL to have no legal validity and that they intended to pursue lawsuits over sections of code supposedly copied from SCO Unix into the
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if they can satisfy all of the license's obligations, despite any other legal obligations they might have. In other words, the obligations of the license may not be
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to be remixed into the GPL-licensed materials (prominently software), not vice versa, for niche use cases like game engine (GPL) with game scripts (CC BY-SA).
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published an analysis and comprehensive critique of GPL's foundations and Stallman's software development model, called "Labyrinth of Software Freedom".
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Version 3 is going to distance Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation from the developers that make the organization so influential to begin.
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co-founder Till Jaeger. In July 2004, the German court confirmed this injunction as a final ruling against Sitecom. The court's justification was that:
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prophesied in 2007 the downfall of the GPL due to the lack of focus for the developers with GPLv3 which would drive them towards permissive licenses.
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of the "Open Source Universe". Linus Torvalds, who decided not to adopt the GPLv3 for the Linux kernel, reiterated his criticism several years later.
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contributing to monopolistic behavior" and that the GPL can "present a real problem for those wishing to commercialize and profit from software."
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produces derivative works, it is not clear whether an executable that dynamically links to a GPL code should be considered a derivative work (see
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repositories revealed, for the GPL license family, a usage percentage of approximately 25% among licensed projects. In June 2016, an analysis of
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foundation, an organization devoted to creating manuals for free software, decided to eschew the GFDL in favor of the GPL for its texts in 2007.
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Looking at the near-finished draft, I have to say it's unlikely that they ever considered simplicity a priority, if they considered it at all.
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reported that the number of open-source project licensed software that had moved from GPLv2 to GPLv3 was 50%, counting the projects hosted at
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license to companies wishing to combine the package with proprietary code, using dynamic linking or not. Examples of such companies include
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contain parts of itself and are therefore derivatives, which would fall under the GPL if not for a special exception granted by GNU Bison.
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gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it.
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The public consultation process was coordinated by the Free Software Foundation with assistance from Software Freedom Law Center,
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5801:"Blender is also still 'GPLv2 or later'. For the time being we stick to that, moving to GPL 3 has no evident benefits I know of."
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general counsel) argues that the method of linking is mostly irrelevant to the question about whether a piece of software is a
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article, "The Failure of the GPL", the problems with the GPL, among them incompatibility and complexity of the license text.
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http://www.buddlefindlay.com/article/2013/07/01/legal-update-on-information-and-communication-technology-%E2%80%93-july-2013
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Guadamuz-Gonzalez, Andres (2004). "Viral contracts or unenforceable documents? Contractual validity of copyleft licenses".
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like, and works (including programs) constructed by the use of the program are not required to be covered by this license.
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argued in 2006 on the GPLv3 draft, noting that a united, collaborating community is more important than a single license.
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and were finally settled in November 2021 by IBM paying $ 14.25 million to the TSG (previously SCO) bankruptcy trustee.
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jurisdictions, the legal distinction between a license and a contract is an important one: contracts are enforceable by
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users of that GPLv3 software; this was possible only if Microsoft was legally a "conveyor" of the GPLv3 software.
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internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program.
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compatibility, the definition of "source code", and hardware restrictions on software modifications, such as
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Version 3 was developed as an attempt to address these concerns and was officially released on 29 June 2007.
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GPLv2-only licensed software. Code licensed under LGPLv2.x without the "any later version" statement can be
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were from the GPL license family. As of August 2008, the GPL family accounted for 70.9% of the 44,927
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cannot be included in the GPL-licensed Linux kernel, because it is licensed under the GPL-incompatible
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described on the FSF blog as a "five-years-running game of Whack-a-Mole") the FSF took them to court.
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Chessbase's license would be reinstated. Stockfish did not seek damages or financial compensation.
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that states a Knowledge editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic.
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due to conflicting obligations. This provision is intended to discourage any party from using a
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must be distributed under the same or equivalent license terms. It is more restrictive than the
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7150:"Linux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites' As Open Source Debate Turns Nasty"
6806:- "BSD vs GPL and social aspects of free licensing debate" on softpanorama.org by
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Speech Transcript – Craig Mundie, The New York University Stern School of Business
6481:"Reverse-engineering the GNU Public Virus — Is copyleft too much of a good thing?"
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4198:"A federal court has ruled that an open-source license is an enforceable contract"
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3591:"GPL FAQ: Why did you decide to write the GNU Affero GPLv3 as a separate license?"
3240:"Presentation in Brussels, Belgium—the first day of that year's FOSDEM conference"
2409:, warned on a splitting of the FOSS community: "the release of GPLv3 portends the
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whether a proprietary program that uses a GPL library is in violation of the GPL.
666:, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. To his right is Columbia Law Professor
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2793:(published 4 April 2017). 2014–2017. GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
2705:(published 4 April 2017). 2014–2017. GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.
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You might think the FSF would have to be insane to unleash this licensing hell.
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3615:"Kernel developers' position on GPLv3 - The Dangers and Problems with GPLv3"
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for copyright violations by its Linksys division, of the FSF's GPL-licensed
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a plan to move toward final judgement. The remaining claims revolved around
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List of presentation transcripts about the GPL and free software licenses
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5284:"GPL FAQ: What does it mean to say that two licenses are "compatible"?"
5236:"GPL FAQ: How are the various GNU licenses compatible with each other?"
4735:"gpl-violations.org project prevails in court case on GPL violation by"
4041:"A Quick Guide to GPLv3 – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF)"
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2754:... The following licenses have been approved by the OSI. ...
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In 2015, according to Black Duck, GPLv2 lost its first position to the
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6507:"Re: propose: 'cypherpunks license' (Re: Wanted: Twofish source code)"
6435:"Re: Section 5.2 (IPR encumberance) in TAK rollover requirement draft"
4968:"Our lawsuit against ChessBase - Stockfish - Open Source Chess Engine"
4803:"Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations"
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with the GPLv2 and for missing clarity in the formulation. Similarly,
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claim or other litigation to impair users' freedom under the license.
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Moglen, Eben (22 June 2006). "Will the "Not a contract" phrase go?".
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Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for
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sued Progress NuSphere for copyright and trademark infringement in
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by the FSF but is still used by many software projects, including
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from LGPLv3 back to LGPLv2.1 due to license compatibility issues.
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of the entire Open Source Universe upon which we rely." Similarly
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receive the covered work from you, a discriminatory patent license
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Decoding liberation: the promise of free and open source software
4993:"Statement on Fat Fritz 2 - Stockfish - Open Source Chess Engine"
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2965:"GPLv3 hits 50 percent adoption | The Open Road - CNET News"
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2895:"GPL FAQ: Does using the GPL for a program make it GNU Software?"
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
2842:"GPL FAQ: If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL)"
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5431:"GPL FAQ: Can I use the GPL for something other than software?"
4477:"Why They're Wrong: WordPress Plugins Shouldn't Have to be GPL"
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and is now second, the GPLv3 dropped to fourth place while the
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platform. For example, if a program consists only of original
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A Review of German Case Law on the GNU General Public License
4325:"Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses (GPL FAQ)"
3317:"GPLv3: Drafting version 3 of the GNU General Public License"
3272:"The GPLv3 process: Public consultation and private drafting"
3214:
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1770:(the appearance of fonts) as being a useful article and thus
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have come under fire, with both sides of the argument taken.
988:, and the copyright is held by the Free Software Foundation.
913:. For Internet distribution, this complies with the license.
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on whitesourcesoftware.com by Sivan Michaeli (12 April 2018)
6019:
4351:"Why you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library"
4281:"GPL FAQ: Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license?"
4237:"GPL FAQ: Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license?"
4054:
De Laat, Paul B. (December 2005). "Copyright or copyleft?".
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BSD vs GPL and social aspects of free licensing debate, by
4805:(Press release). Free Software Foundation. 11 December 2008
4598:"JOINT STATUS REPORT, Case 2:03-cv-00294-DN, Document 1179"
4108:"Reasoning behind the "preferred form" language in the GPL"
3215:"SPDX License List - Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)"
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personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay
6417:"Microsoft opened Linux-driver code after 'violating' GPL"
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Following the GPLv3 release in 2007, some journalists and
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GPL usage statistics from 2009 to 2013 was extracted from
741:, patents, and "additional restrictions", and warned of a
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6398:"Microsoft embraces Linux cancer to sell Windows servers"
5895:"7 Reasons Why Free Software Is Losing Influence: Page 2"
2820:"Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism – Free Software Foundation"
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In 2001, the term received broader public attention when
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if the whole combined work is licensed to GPLv2 or GPLv3.
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As a case study, some supposedly proprietary plugins and
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This key dispute is whether non-GPL software can legally
5585:"Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else"
5387:"Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else"
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as to the enforceability of the GPLv2 under German law.
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additional restrictions and permissions one can apply:
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The first known violation of the GPL was in 1989, when
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4827:(Press release). Free Software Foundation. 20 May 2009
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of the entire Open Source Universe upon which we rely.
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Other licenses created by the GNU project include the
6688:"Some rights reserved: the alternatives to copyright"
6321:"Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times"
6151:. Black Duck Software. 2 January 2017. Archived from
5606:. Black Duck Software. 23 August 2013. Archived from
4943:"Update on Artifex v. Hancom GNU GPL compliance case"
4394:
The GPL: Understanding the License that Governs Linux
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Point of view: dynamic and static linking violate GPL
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at the launch of the first draft of the GNU GPLv3 at
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Comparison of open-source and closed-source software
5839:"VLC media player to remain under GNU GPL version 2"
5511:. Voted February–March 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
5369:"ShareAlike compatibility: GPLv3 - Creative Commons"
4551:
12 Years of GPL Compliance: A Historical Perspective
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Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc.
4123:"Don't Let 'Intellectual Property' Twist Your Ethos"
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License proliferation: a naive quantitative analysis
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Comparison of free and open-source software licenses
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kernel, for instance, is licensed under GPLv2 only.
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and even further distinct from the more widely-used
3976:"Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses"
3954:"Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses"
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1577:On 20 July 2021, the developers of the open-source
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6177:. Black Duck Software. 4 June 2018. Archived from
6125:. Black Duck Software. 6 June 2016. Archived from
4631:"Last of original SCO v IBM Linux lawsuit settled"
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1493:On 11 December 2008, the Free Software Foundation
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6344:"GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991"
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5501:
5457:"GPL FAQ: Why don't you use the GPL for manuals?"
5153:"FSF Wastes Away Another "High Priority" Project"
4149:
3578:List of free-software licences on the FSF website
3549:"GNU Affero GPL version 3 and the "ASP loophole""
3194:"GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0"
2385:called the copyleft GPL a "Corporate Open Source
1536:devices, and a home theater/media player device.
1361:. There was no lawsuit filed for this violation.
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6296:. One.ubuntu.com. 29 August 2013. Archived from
6085:"The Curse of Open Source License Proliferation"
5932:on ITworld on 16 December 2011 by Brian Proffitt
5664:"The Curse of Open Source License Proliferation"
5116:
5114:
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3661:"A fight against evil or a fight for attention?"
1548:and to make a monetary contribution to the FSF.
1287:Communicating and bundling with non-GPL programs
703:Early drafts of GPLv3 also let licensors add an
7931:Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns
7801:Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns
6911:. onlamp.com. 22 September 2005. Archived from
6611:Chopra, Samir; Dexter, Scott (14 August 2007).
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5785:"What's up with DWG adoption in free software?"
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5181:"LibreDWG drama: the end or the new beginning?"
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3331:"gplv3.fsf.org comments for discussion draft 4"
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6110:Top 20 Most Commonly Used Open Source Licenses
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2761:GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL-3.0)
2758:GNU General Public License version 2 (GPL-2.0)
2161:The GPL is incompatible with many application
1463:project prevailed in court litigation against
1197:There is also the specific issue of whether a
1119:The Free Software Foundation also created the
707:-like requirement that would have plugged the
670:, chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center.
301:for general use and was originally written by
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5201:... "We are not going to change the license."
5111:
4883:"Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009"
4656:"Groklaw - The German GPL Order - Translated"
4195:
2946:GPL 60.5%, lGPLv2 6.9%, GPLv2 1.9% GPLv3 1.6%
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832:, or is combined with source code from other
8049:Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities
7846:
7216:Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos (18 December 2012).
7007:
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5998:on ostatic.com by Jon Buys (7 February 2012)
5923:GPL, copyleft use declining faster than ever
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1444:against the Free Software Foundation in the
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890:by the original author under copyright law.
7368:GNU General Public License and Commentaries
6842:
6598:"The Basement Interviews: Freeing the Code"
6253:Open Source Licensing Trends: 2017 vs. 2016
6225:
5563:"GPL FAQ: How does the GPL apply to fonts?"
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1680:Common Development and Distribution License
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7178:Mavrogiannopoulos, Nikos (26 March 2013).
7097:Anti-pattern: Anti-collaborative licensing
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5782:
5481:
5179:Prokoudine, Alexandre (27 December 2012).
5178:
5122:"GPL FAQ: Is GPLv3 compatible with GPLv2?"
4845:
4683:, 17 December 2007, retrieved 1 March 2012
4255:"The GNU General Public License Version 3"
3306:, Free Software Magazine, 23 January 2008.
3123:
2812:
2780:"Various Licenses and Comments about Them"
2692:"Various Licenses and Comments about Them"
1883:Usage of GPL family licenses in % on
1539:After six years of repeated complaints to
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263:
236:Linking from code with a different licence
220:Yes (applies to GPLv3-only and GPLv2-only)
100:
30:"GPL" redirects here. For other uses, see
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6876:
6653:
6441:Namedroppers mailing list. Archived from
6202:"Open source license usage on GitHub.com"
5783:Prokoudine, Alexandre (26 January 2012).
4940:
4880:
4792:
4012:
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2905:
2613:Progress Software Corporation v. MySQL AB
2188:have application repositories, including
1875:data by Walter van Holst while analyzing
1069:Learn how and when to remove this message
313:. The license grants the recipients of a
82:Learn how and when to remove this message
7363:Frequently Asked Questions about the GPL
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7072:
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6848:"Should I change the name of the WTFPL?"
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6294:"Ubuntu One : Terms and Conditions"
6087:. socializedsoftware.com. Archived from
5941:
5787:. libregraphicsworld.org. Archived from
5666:. socializedsoftware.com. Archived from
5329:"Black Duck Open Source Resource Center"
5183:. libregraphicsworld.org. Archived from
4902:"Re: Compiled files without sources????"
4899:
4864:
4435:
4433:
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3894:so, but I thought I'd make that explicit
3659:Petreley, Nicholas (27 September 2006).
3658:
3458:Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-4'
3432:Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-3'
3406:Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-1'
3373:Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-1'
3237:
3092:
2364:In 2009, David Chisnall described in an
2310:
2298:Business models for open-source software
1655:(in its current 3-clause form), and the
1596:
898:access to the work and all derivatives.
790:
753:developer Rob Landley described it as a
654:
7286:"Are you sure you want to use the GPL?"
7109:Hill, Benjamin Mako (28 January 2006).
7013:
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6228:"Software Licenses in Fedora Ecosystem"
5892:
5737:
5331:. blackducksoftware.com. Archived from
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4287:. Free Software Foundation. 9 June 2017
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3815:
3742:Kerner, Sean Michael (8 January 2008).
3546:
3153:"GNU General Public License, version 1"
3012:"Why the GPL rocketed Linux to success"
2516:Category:Software using the GPL license
1740:
1689:to distribute a GPL version and sell a
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8655:Free and open-source software licenses
8647:
6976:
6940:"GPLv3, Linux and GPLv2 Compatibility"
6937:
6879:"ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore""
6741:New Media Rights (12 September 2008).
6414:
6395:
6199:
6040:"GPL use in Debian on the rise: study"
5964:"On the continuing decline of the GPL"
5961:
5714:
5694:"MySQL changes license to avoid GPLv3"
4848:"Say what? GNU Emacs violates the GPL"
4128:
3986:from the original on 17 November 2023.
3964:from the original on 17 November 2023.
3741:
3635:... 5.2 Additional Restrictions Clause
3258:"GPLv3 authors comment on final draft"
3238:Stallman, Richard (25 February 2006).
3109:"Why Upgrade to GPL Version 3 --GPLv3"
2172:There is a distinction between an app
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950:, whereas licenses are enforced under
7997:
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7402:
7263:"Licensing in a Post Copyright World"
7237:
7152:. informationweek.com. Archived from
7075:"Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns"
7073:Cantrill, Bryan (17 September 2014).
6833:by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole (2002)
6685:
6429:
5093:"The GNU General Public License v3.0"
4941:Robertson, Donald (11 October 2017).
4865:Naughton, Edward J. (8 August 2011).
4732:
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4427:, ¶10 (9th Cir. 21 May 1992).
4152:European Intellectual Property Review
3942:from the original on 7 November 2023.
3855:"Transcript of CELF 2013 Toybox talk"
2649:(published 12 July 2017). 1997–2017.
2580:are used (thus not GPL itself), then
1782:for cases where this is not desired.
562:GNU General Public License, version 3
484:GNU General Public License, version 2
425:GNU General Public License, version 1
8572:Microsoft Open Specification Promise
7519:GNAT Modified General Public License
7108:
6877:Biancuzzi, Federico (30 June 2005).
6791:On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL
6767:Montague, Bruce (13 November 2013).
6531:"Re: Using of parse tree externally"
6528:
6376:Free Software Leaders Stand Together
6082:
5962:Aslett, Matthew (15 December 2011).
5942:Proffitt, Brian (16 December 2011).
5661:
5151:Larabel, Michael (24 January 2013).
4474:
4121:Stallman, Richard M. (9 June 2006).
4023:"GPL FAQ: Port program to GNU/Linux"
3691:
3442:"gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 4"
3416:"gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 3"
3390:"gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 2"
3357:"gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 1"
2962:
2472:Free and open-source software portal
1848:open-source programs office manager
1172:Point of view: linking is irrelevant
1164:defined a derivative work as having
1022:
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8039:Alternative terms for free software
7349:A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance
6549:Griffis, L. Adrian (15 July 2000).
5893:Byfield, Bruce (22 November 2011).
4733:Welte, Harald (22 September 2006).
3991:"GPL FAQ: Unreleased modifications"
3852:
3524:"Fourth Discussion Draft Rationale"
3475:"Guide to the third draft of GPLv3"
3093:Stallman, Richard (21 April 2006).
2246:Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX
2157:Legal barrier to application stores
1415:, of Netfilter, was represented by
24:
8379:Python Software Foundation License
7047:Chisnall, David (31 August 2009).
6909:"RMS: The GNU GPL Is Here to Stay"
6820:The Scope of Open Source Licensing
6769:"GPL Advantages and Disadvantages"
6686:Geere, Duncan (16 December 2011).
6596:Poynder, Richard (21 March 2006).
6350:. Wheeler, David A. Archived from
5409:"Linux: ZFS, Licenses and Patents"
4900:Stallman, Richard (28 July 2011).
4137:3nd international GPLv3 conference
3319:. Free Software Foundation Europe.
2396:
1619:library cannot be used anymore by
1403:project was granted a preliminary
1240:The GPLv3 has a different clause:
942:, rather than a contract. In some
808:, such as when using GPL-licensed
717:Others, notably some high-profile
25:
8681:
8442:Definition of Free Cultural Works
8059:Free software project directories
7983:Comparison of Linux distributions
7905:GNU Affero General Public License
7900:GNU Lesser General Public License
7509:GNU Affero General Public License
7504:GNU Lesser General Public License
7390:The Labyrinth of Software Freedom
7300:
7019:"The Death Of A Software License"
6938:Randal, Allison (13 April 2007).
5966:. the451group.com. Archived from
5738:Landley, Rob (9 September 2006).
4711:판결문 - GNU 프로젝트 - 자유 소프트웨어 재단(FSF)
2797:from the original on 20 July 2017
2744:from the original on 20 July 2017
2709:from the original on 20 July 2017
2653:from the original on 20 July 2017
2578:permissive free software licenses
2538:Sections 3a and 3b of the license
1627:who have GPLv2-only dependencies.
1593:Compatibility and multi-licensing
1009:GNU Affero General Public License
1001:GNU Lesser General Public License
650:Microsoft-Novell patent agreement
546:GNU Lesser General Public License
8629:
8628:
8618:
8079:Open-source software development
7337:The Emacs General Public License
7261:Ronacher, Armin (23 July 2013).
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4825:"FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco"
4778:"Linux on Linksys Wi-Fi Routers"
4383:mailing list (17 December 2006).
4002:"GPL FAQ: Internal Distribution"
3547:Tiemann, Michael (7 June 2007).
2547:Sections 2b and 4 of the license
2464:
2330:in 2004 as a parody of the GPL.
1774:, but font files as copyrighted
1027:
858:Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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27:Series of free software licenses
8437:Debian Free Software Guidelines
8269:Free Software Movement of India
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7351:(Covers GPLv2 and v3)—from the
7327:GNU General Public License v1.0
7313:GNU General Public License v2.0
6979:"GPLv3, Clarity and Simplicity"
6977:Randal, Allison (14 May 2007).
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1176:According to an article in the
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636:Free Software Foundation Europe
7967:League for Programming Freedom
7514:GNU Free Documentation License
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6396:Clarke, Gavin (20 July 2009).
6269:The GPL, the App Store and You
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4776:Ewing, James (1 August 2004).
4177:Allison Randal (14 May 2007).
3816:Landley, Rob (13 March 2013).
3744:"Torvalds Still Keen On GPLv2"
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2261:The description of the GPL as
1748:GNU Free Documentation License
1562:In 2017 Artifex, the maker of
1162:Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
1005:GNU Free Documentation License
984:The text of the GPL is itself
979:
285:) are a series of widely used
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8427:Contributor License Agreement
8241:Open-source-software movement
8025:Free and open-source software
6804:Labyrinth of Software Freedom
6743:"Open Source Licensing Guide"
6529:Buck, Joe (10 October 2000).
6319:Newbart, Dave (1 June 2001).
6112:Shaun Connolly, 11 March 2009
5740:"Re: Move GPLv2 vs v3 fun..."
5528:. 6 June 2007. Archived from
4563:Common Lisp, Readline and GPL
4405:Novell Cool Solutions Feature
4196:Keith Collins (11 May 2017).
3776:. Tech LawForum. 29 June 2007
2621:
2490:European Union Public Licence
2208:. These specific application
2137:A March 2015 analysis of the
1721:). Other companies, like the
350:free and open-source software
327:Lesser General Public License
8598:The Cathedral and the Bazaar
8452:The Free Software Definition
7789:GNU/Linux naming controversy
7358:A paper on enforcing the GPL
7345:by Li-Cheng Tai, 4 July 2001
6881:. onlamp.com. Archived from
6631:Williams, Sam (March 2002).
6581:Prepared Text of Remarks by
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6226:Anwesha Das (22 June 2016).
6200:Balter, Ben (9 March 2015).
4082:"Conditions for Using Bison"
4068:10.1016/j.respol.2005.07.003
3938:. Free Software Foundation.
3907:"GNU General Public License"
3167:"New General Public License"
2938:"Freecode's statistics page"
2292:Barrier to commercialization
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1717:), and Riverbank Computing (
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1370:United States district court
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319:the Free Software Definition
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8467:Permissive software license
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6793:. Free Software Foundation.
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8660:Copyleft software licenses
8507:Proprietary device drivers
8457:The Open Source Definition
7895:GNU General Public License
7487:GNU General Public License
7307:GNU General Public License
7206:"GnuTLS 3.1.10: changelog"
6852:Programmers Stack Exchange
5989:The Top Licenses on Github
5946:. IT world. Archived from
5482:Srivastava, Manoj (2006).
5463:. Free Software Foundation
5437:. Free Software Foundation
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7848:Free Software Foundation
7471:History of free software
7449:Free Software Foundation
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7238:Rosen, Lawrence (2007).
7049:"The Failure of the GPL"
6271:" on engadget.com (2011)
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5556:Free Software Foundation
5526:FLOSS Manuals Foundation
5373:wiki.creativecommons.org
4947:Free Software Foundation
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4695:of Wallace v. FSF. From
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4259:Free Software Foundation
4110:. LWN.net. 7 March 2011.
3796:"A Quick Guide to GPLv3"
3727:(accessed 11 March 2015)
3489:"Final Discussion Draft"
3302:20 November 2017 at the
3068:"The History of the GPL"
2791:Free Software Foundation
2703:Free Software Foundation
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2288:under the GPL license."
1495:sued Cisco Systems, Inc.
800:Use of licensed software
602:Free Software Foundation
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133:Free Software Foundation
8522:SCO/Linux controversies
7921:Free Software Directory
6333:(Internet archive link)
6025:31 October 2011 at the
5814:"License - blender.org"
3932:"Selling Free Software"
1762:If the GPL is used for
1572:Jacqueline Scott Corley
1534:virtual private network
1515:GNU Compiler Collection
1337:SCO-Linux controversies
934:License versus contract
399:free software community
358:GNU Compiler Collection
8422:Comparison of licenses
8231:Free software movement
7180:"The perils of LGPLv3"
6825:9 January 2016 at the
6551:"The GNU Public Virus"
6458:"General Public Virus"
5837:Denis-Courmont, Rémi.
5068:"Settlement (English)"
4922:. LWN.net. 15 May 2017
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3179:For the reasoning see
2737:Open Source Initiative
2574:General Public License
2480:Criticism of copyright
1939:University of Victoria
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1188:Open Source Initiative
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8497:License proliferation
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6671:on 22 December 2001.
5355:"Compatible Licenses"
5043:"Settlement (German)"
2636:"License information"
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2311:Open-source criticism
2110:71.72% (+ <0.64%)
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1600:
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142:25 February 1989
8582:Open-source hardware
8517:Proprietary software
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8208:Formerly proprietary
8074:Open-source software
7945:Sister organizations
7117:on 22 September 2015
7111:"Notes on the GPLv3"
6802:Bezroukov, Nikolai,
6557:on 30 September 2007
6445:on 27 September 2007
6300:on 25 September 2013
5994:4 March 2016 at the
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2335:open source software
2182:digital distribution
2163:digital distribution
2107:GPL family together
1741:Text and other media
1630:Code licensed under
1488:BusyBox GPL lawsuits
1375:In August 2003, the
1353:compiler to support
1160:, the United States
806:proprietary software
768:Terms and conditions
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8462:Open-source license
8064:Gratis versus libre
7936:Defective by Design
7872:Richard M. Stallman
7806:Defective by Design
7773:Richard M. Stallman
7240:"Comments on GPLv3"
6083:Mark (8 May 2008).
5717:"Busy busy busybox"
5704:on 6 February 2007.
5662:Mark (8 May 2008).
5646:"License -> OSI:
5636:on 13 February 2017
5532:on 28 February 2008
4877:on 27 January 2016.
4722:on 18 October 2007.
4679:17 May 2013 at the
4185:on 15 October 2008.
3881:"Linux-2.4.0-test8"
3510:"GPL version 3 FAQ"
2944:on 28 August 2008.
2393:software licenses.
2186:Linux distributions
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1887:
1813:projects listed on
1731:Mozilla Thunderbird
1705:, before 2011 from
1557:copyright violation
1478:developers and the
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965:Software developer
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712:loophole in the GPL
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7877:Gerald Jay Sussman
7738:Benjamin Mako Hill
7343:History of the GPL
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7087:on 27 October 2021
7025:on 11 October 2008
6915:on 17 January 2015
6831:Harvard University
6639:. O'Reilly Media.
6467:. 15 December 1990
6281:"Copyright Policy"
6091:on 8 December 2015
5970:on 9 December 2016
5950:on 3 December 2013
5791:on 9 November 2016
5670:on 8 December 2015
5583:David A. Wheeler.
5389:. David A. Wheeler
5335:on 14 October 2012
5187:on 9 November 2016
5163:on 9 November 2016
5022:stockfishchess.org
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4972:stockfishchess.org
4753:"D-Link Judgement"
4739:gpl-violations.org
4610:on 26 January 2019
4479:. Webmaster-Source
4458:"Derivative Works"
3831:on 27 October 2021
3750:. internetnews.com
2971:on 29 October 2013
2917:David A. Wheeler.
2732:"Licenses by Name"
2496:GPL font exception
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2403:Greg Kroah-Hartman
2165:systems, like the
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7323:and GNU packages.
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6808:Nikolai Bezroukov
6661:Nikolai Bezroukov
6624:978-0-415-97893-4
6325:Chicago Sun-Times
6175:"Top 20 licenses"
6149:"Top 20 licenses"
6123:"Top 20 licenses"
5604:"Top 20 licenses"
5073:. 7 November 2022
5048:. 7 November 2022
4765:on 26 April 2013.
4672:Bird & Bird,
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4062:(10): 1511–1532.
3692:Torvalds, Linus.
3559:on 14 August 2020
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2869:"Top 20 licenses"
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1657:Artistic License
1530:wireless routers
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