- The judgement judgement finally provided the on-record, legal precedent that the GPL is valid and legally binding, and that it will stand up in German court.(More...)
The judgement judgement finally provided the on-record, legal precedent that the GPL is valid and legally binding, and that it will stand up in German court. Many of the most common free software licenses, such as the original MIT/X license, the BSD license (in its current 3-clause form), and the LGPL, are "GPL-compatible". Their code can be combined with a GPLed program without conflict (the new combination would have the GPL applied to the whole).
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Some other free software programs are dual-licensed under multiple licenses, often with one of the licenses being the GPL.
[1] The GPL grants the recipients of a computer program the rights of the free software definition and uses copyleft to ensure the freedoms are preserved, even when the work is changed or added to.
[1] Stallman has argued that free software should not place restrictions on commercial use, and the GPL explicitly states that GPL works may be sold at any price.
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The GNU General Public License ( GNU GPL or simply GPL ) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project.
[1] Prominent free software programs licensed under the GPL include the Linux kernel and the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
[1] The text of the GPL is itself copyrighted, and the copyright is held by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
[1] In May of 2005 2005 2005, Daniel Wallace filed suit against the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in the Southern District of Indiana, contending that the GPL is an illegal attempt to fix prices at zero.
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The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.
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Being free software, LimeWire has spawned several forks, including LionShare, an experimental software development project at Penn State University, and Acquisition Acquisition, a Mac OS X "based Gnutella client with a proprietary interface. Researchers at Cornell University developed a reputation management add-in called Credence that allows users to distinguish between "genuine" and "suspect" files before downloading them.
[4] Released under the GNU General Public License GNU General Public License, LimeWire is free software. It also encourages the user to pay a fee, which will then give the user access to LimeWire PRO.
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If the resulting software is kept only for use by the modifier, no disclosure of source code is required. The GPL is automatically revoked upon any violation of its terms, but copyright owners of works licensed with the GPL are free to negotiate alternate terms with authors of derived works.
[1] 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 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.
[1] By some measures, the GPL is the single most popular license for free and open source software. As of April 2004, the GPL accounted for nearly 75% of the 23,479 free-software projects listed on Freshmeat, and about 68% of the projects listed on SourceForge. (These sites are owned by OSTG, a company that advocates Linux Linux and the GPL.)
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- Template:Future Template:Wikinews As of 2006, version 3 of the GPL (GPLv3) is being written by Richard Stallman, with legal counsel from Eben Moglen and Software Freedom Law Center.(More...)
Template:Future Template:Wikinews As of 2006, version 3 of the GPL (GPLv3) is being written by Richard Stallman, with legal counsel from Eben Moglen and Software Freedom Law Center. [1] The right to redistribute is granted only if the includes the source code and be licensed under the terms of the GPL. This requirement is known as copyleft. It earns its legal power from the use of copyright on software programs.
[1] If you do not abide by the GPL's terms and conditions, then you do not have permission, under copyright law, to copy or distribute GPL licensed software or derivative works. It does not mean that you may use the software however you like.
[1] The license weakens the ability to grant end-users the right to copy or use the software for a limited number of computers. There are also no protections in the GPL from activities normally permitted by copyright laws, such as reverse engineering. Such agreements can be made between parties, but a party can avoid such agreements by receiving the GPL work elsewhere.
[1] 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 of the software under a non-disclosure agreement or contract. Distributors under the GPL also grant a license for any of their patents practiced by the software, to practice those patents in GPL software.
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Amongst others, independent software consultant Ted Roche has noted that dual-licensing is becoming more common. This is where software licensed under the GPL can be made available under a proprietary software proprietary software license for a fee, allowing others to create derived works without licensing them under the GPL. Charging money is not allowed The GPL expressly permits one to sell copies of GPL-covered works
sell copies of GPL-covered works and charge a download fee for them
charge a download fee for them.
[1] See the List of software licenses for examples of compatible and incompatible licenses. In contrast with proprietary software and their end-user licenses (EULA), the GPL makes offering the source code a necessary obligation.
[1] 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. This ruling was important because it was the first time that a court had confirmed that violating terms of the GPL was an act of copyright violation.
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Many have strongly advocated that open source software developers use only GPL-compatible licenses, because doing otherwise makes it difficult to reuse software in larger wholes.
[1] Comments are collected from the public via a web portal gplv3.fsf.org
gplv3.fsf.org. That portal runs purpose written software called stet.
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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. Other licenses created by the GNU project include the GNU Lesser General Public License and the GNU Free Documentation License GNU Free Documentation License GNU Free Documentation License.
[1] The suit was dismissed in March 2006, on the grounds that Wallace had failed to state a valid anti-trust 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.
[1] A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
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Lime Wire LLC, the developer of LimeWire, distributes two versions of the program; a basic version for free, and an enhanced version sold for a fee of US$ US$ 24.95 that offers faster downloads. This is accomplished by facilitating direct connection with up to 10 hosts of an identical searched file at any one time, whereas the free version is limited to a maximum of 8 hosts.
[4] While commonly mistaken by many users to be a license to the content accessible via LimeWire on the Gnutella network, in fact, it is only a license to the software.
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GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Metasyntactic variable"
Wikipedia article "Metasyntactic variable".
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