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GNU General Public License

Index GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. [1]

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  1. 220 relations: AdvFS, Allison Randal, AMD, Andrew Morton (computer programmer), Anti-circumvention, Anti-pattern, Apache License, Application service provider, Armin Ronacher, Artistic License, Balkanization, Benjamin Mako Hill, Binary file, Blender (software), Bryan Cantrill, BSD licenses, BusyBox, C standard library, Caldera OpenLinux, California Western School of Law, ChessBase, Chief technology officer, Chlorophytum comosum, Chris DiBona, Cisco, Civil law (legal system), Common Development and Distribution License, Common law, Comparison of free and open-source software licenses, Compiler, Computer font, Computer program, Content management system, Contract, Copyleft, Copyright, Copyright infringement, Craig Mundie, Creative Commons license, Criticism of copyright, Cygwin, Cypherpunk, D-Link, Datamation, Debian, Debian configuration system, Deprecation, Derivative work, Digital distribution, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ... Expand index (170 more) »

  2. Copyleft
  3. Copyleft software licenses
  4. GNU Project

AdvFS

AdvFS, also known as Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System, is a file system developed in the late 1980s to mid-1990s by Digital Equipment Corporation for their OSF/1 version of the Unix operating system (later Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX).

See GNU General Public License and AdvFS

Allison Randal

Allison Randal is a software developer and author.

See GNU General Public License and Allison Randal

AMD

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that designs, develops and sells computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.

See GNU General Public License and AMD

Andrew Morton (computer programmer)

Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959) is an Australian software engineer.

See GNU General Public License and Andrew Morton (computer programmer)

Anti-circumvention

Anti-circumvention refers to laws which prohibit the circumvention of technological barriers for using a digital good in certain ways which the rightsholders do not wish to allow.

See GNU General Public License and Anti-circumvention

Anti-pattern

An anti-pattern in software engineering, project management, and business processes is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive.

See GNU General Public License and Anti-pattern

Apache License

The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). GNU General Public License and Apache License are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and Apache License

Application service provider

An application service provider (ASP) is a business providing application software generally through the Web.

See GNU General Public License and Application service provider

Armin Ronacher

Armin Ronacher (born 10 May 1989) is an Austrian open source software programmer and the creator of the Flask web framework for Python.

See GNU General Public License and Armin Ronacher

Artistic License

The Artistic License is an open-source license used for certain free and open-source software packages, most notably the standard implementation of the Perl programming language and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License (GPL). GNU General Public License and Artistic License are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and Artistic License

Balkanization

Balkanization or Balkanisation is the process involving the fragmentation of an area, country, or region into multiple smaller and hostile units.

See GNU General Public License and Balkanization

Benjamin Mako Hill

Benjamin Mako Hill is a free software activist, hacker, author, and professor.

See GNU General Public License and Benjamin Mako Hill

Binary file

A binary file is a computer file that is not a text file.

See GNU General Public License and Binary file

Blender (software)

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set that runs on Windows, MacOS, BSD, Haiku, and Linux.

See GNU General Public License and Blender (software)

Bryan Cantrill

Bryan M. Cantrill (born 1973) is an American software engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems and later at Oracle Corporation following its acquisition of Sun.

See GNU General Public License and Bryan Cantrill

BSD licenses

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. GNU General Public License and BSD licenses are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and BSD licenses

BusyBox

BusyBox is a software suite that provides several Unix utilities in a single executable file.

See GNU General Public License and BusyBox

C standard library

The C standard library or libc is the standard library for the C programming language, as specified in the ISO C standard.

See GNU General Public License and C standard library

Caldera OpenLinux

Caldera OpenLinux (COL) is a defunct Linux distribution.

See GNU General Public License and Caldera OpenLinux

California Western School of Law

California Western School of Law is a private law school in San Diego, California.

See GNU General Public License and California Western School of Law

ChessBase

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess.

See GNU General Public License and ChessBase

Chief technology officer

A chief technology officer (CTO) (also known as a chief technical officer or chief technologist) is an officer tasked with managing technical operations of an organization.

See GNU General Public License and Chief technology officer

Chlorophytum comosum

Chlorophytum comosum, usually called spider plant or common spider plant due to its spider-like look, also known as spider ivy, airplane plant, ribbon plant (a name it shares with Dracaena sanderiana), and hen and chickens, is a species of evergreen perennial flowering plant of the family Asparagaceae.

See GNU General Public License and Chlorophytum comosum

Chris DiBona

Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) was the director of open source at Google from August 2004 at Google Ventures.

See GNU General Public License and Chris DiBona

Cisco

Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California.

See GNU General Public License and Cisco

Civil law (legal system)

Civil law is a legal system originating in Italy and France that has been adopted in large parts of the world.

See GNU General Public License and Civil law (legal system)

Common Development and Distribution License

The Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) is a free and open-source software license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL). GNU General Public License and Common Development and Distribution License are copyleft and free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and Common Development and Distribution License

Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.

See GNU General Public License and Common law

Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

This comparison only covers software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following expert groups: the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, the Debian Project and the Fedora Project. GNU General Public License and comparison of free and open-source software licenses are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

Compiler

In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language).

See GNU General Public License and Compiler

Computer font

A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs.

See GNU General Public License and Computer font

Computer program

A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute.

See GNU General Public License and Computer program

Content management system

A content management system (CMS) is computer software used to manage the creation and modification of digital content (content management).

See GNU General Public License and Content management system

Contract

A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties.

See GNU General Public License and Contract

Copyleft

Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works. GNU General Public License and Copyleft are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and Copyleft

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

See GNU General Public License and Copyright

Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to produce derivative works.

See GNU General Public License and Copyright infringement

Craig Mundie

Craig James Mundie (born July 1, 1949) is an American businessperson.

See GNU General Public License and Craig Mundie

Creative Commons license

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". GNU General Public License and Creative Commons license are copyleft and copyleft software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and Creative Commons license

Criticism of copyright, or anti-copyright sentiment, is a dissenting view of the current state of copyright law or copyright as a concept.

See GNU General Public License and Criticism of copyright

Cygwin

Cygwin is a free and open-source Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.

See GNU General Public License and Cygwin

Cypherpunk

A cypherpunk is any individual advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change.

See GNU General Public License and Cypherpunk

D-Link Systems, Inc. (formerly Datex Systems, Inc.) is a Taiwanese multinational manufacturer of networking hardware and telecoms equipments.

See GNU General Public License and D-Link

Datamation

Datamation is a computer magazine that was published in print form in the United States between 1957 and 1998,, Sharon Machlis // ComputerWorld, page 15, 19 January 1998 and has since continued publication on the web.

See GNU General Public License and Datamation

Debian

Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software and optionally non-free firmware or software developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993.

See GNU General Public License and Debian

Debian configuration system

is a software utility for performing system-wide configuration tasks on Unix-like operating systems.

See GNU General Public License and Debian configuration system

Deprecation

Deprecation is the discouragement of use of something human-made, such as a term, feature, design, or practice.

See GNU General Public License and Deprecation

Derivative work

In copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of a first, previously created original work (the underlying work).

See GNU General Public License and Derivative work

Digital distribution

Digital distribution, also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution, among others, is the delivery or distribution of digital media content such as audio, video, e-books, video games, and other software.

See GNU General Public License and Digital distribution

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

See GNU General Public License and Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content.

See GNU General Public License and Digital rights management

Drupal

Drupal is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

See GNU General Public License and Drupal

DTrace

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework originally created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time.

See GNU General Public License and DTrace

Dynamic linker

In computing, a dynamic linker is the part of an operating system that loads and links the shared libraries needed by an executable when it is executed (at "run time"), by copying the content of libraries from persistent storage to RAM, filling jump tables and relocating pointers.

See GNU General Public License and Dynamic linker

Eben Moglen

Eben Moglen (born July 13, 1959) is an American legal scholar who is professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center.

See GNU General Public License and Eben Moglen

Embedded system

An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system.

See GNU General Public License and Embedded system

End user

In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product.

See GNU General Public License and End user

Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

See GNU General Public License and Eric S. Raymond

European Union Public Licence

The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) is a free software licence that was written and approved by the European Commission. GNU General Public License and European Union Public Licence are copyleft, copyleft software licenses and free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and European Union Public Licence

Executable

In computer science, executable code, an executable file, or an executable program, sometimes simply referred to as an executable or binary, causes a computer "to perform indicated tasks according to encoded instructions", as opposed to a data file that must be interpreted (parsed) by an interpreter to be functional.

See GNU General Public License and Executable

Fair use

Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder.

See GNU General Public License and Fair use

FAQ

A frequently asked questions (FAQ) list is often used in articles, websites, email lists, and online forums where common questions tend to recur, for example through posts or queries by new users related to common knowledge gaps.

See GNU General Public License and FAQ

Fedora Linux

Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project.

See GNU General Public License and Fedora Linux

Fedora Project

The Fedora Project is an independent project to co-ordinate the development of Fedora Linux, a Linux-based operating system, operating with the vision of "a world where everyone benefits from free and open source software built by inclusive, welcoming, and open-minded communities." The project's mission statement is to create "an innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users".

See GNU General Public License and Fedora Project

File Transfer Protocol

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network.

See GNU General Public License and File Transfer Protocol

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.

See GNU General Public License and Firefox

Flask (web framework)

Flask is a micro web framework written in Python.

See GNU General Public License and Flask (web framework)

FLOSS Manuals

The FLOSS Manuals (FM) is a non-profit foundation founded in 2006 by Adam Hyde and based in the Netherlands.

See GNU General Public License and FLOSS Manuals

Free and open-source software

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge.

See GNU General Public License and Free and open-source software

Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

See GNU General Public License and Free software

Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.

See GNU General Public License and Free Software Foundation

Free Software Foundation Europe

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is an organization that supports free software and all aspects of the free software movement in Europe, with registered chapters in several European countries.

See GNU General Public License and Free Software Foundation Europe

Free Software Foundation, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc.

Free Software Foundation, Inc.

See GNU General Public License and Free Software Foundation, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc.

Free software movement

The free software movement is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedoms to run, study, modify, and share copies of software.

See GNU General Public License and Free software movement

Free-software license

A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software. GNU General Public License and free-software license are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and Free-software license

FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

See GNU General Public License and FreeBSD

FreeCAD

FreeCAD is a general-purpose parametric 3D computer-aided design (CAD) modeler and a building information modeling (BIM) software application with finite element method (FEM) support.

See GNU General Public License and FreeCAD

Freecode

Freecode, formerly Freshmeat, is a website owned by BIZX, Inc., hosting mainly open-source software for programmers and developers.

See GNU General Public License and Freecode

Ghostscript

Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.

See GNU General Public License and Ghostscript

GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

See GNU General Public License and GitHub

GNU Affero General Public License

The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free, copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, and based on the GNU GPL version 3 and the Affero General Public License (non-GNU). GNU General Public License and GNU Affero General Public License are copyleft, copyleft software licenses, free and open-source software licenses and GNU Project.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Affero General Public License

GNU Binutils

The GNU Binary Utilities, or, is a collection of programming tools maintained by the GNU Project for working with executable code including assembly, linking and many other development operations.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Binutils

GNU Bison

GNU Bison, commonly known as Bison, is a parser generator that is part of the GNU Project.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Bison

GNU Compiler Collection

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a collection of compilers from the GNU Project that support various programming languages, hardware architectures and operating systems.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Compiler Collection

GNU Core Utilities

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Core Utilities

GNU Debugger

The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, Assembly, C, C++, D, Fortran, Haskell, Go, Objective-C, OpenCL C, Modula-2, Pascal, Rust, and partially others.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Debugger

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is a free software text editor.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Emacs

GNU Free Documentation License

The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU Project. GNU General Public License and GNU Free Documentation License are copyleft, copyleft software licenses, free and open-source software licenses and GNU Project.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Free Documentation License

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. GNU General Public License and GNU General Public License are copyleft, copyleft software licenses, free and open-source software licenses and GNU Project.

See GNU General Public License and GNU General Public License

GNU Lesser General Public License

The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). GNU General Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License are copyleft, copyleft software licenses, free and open-source software licenses and GNU Project.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License

GNU Parted

GNU Parted (from GNU partition editor) is a free partition editor, used for creating and deleting partitions.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Parted

GNU Project

The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project announced by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Project

GNU Readline

GNU Readline is a software library that provides in-line editing and history capabilities for interactive programs with a command-line interface, such as Bash.

See GNU General Public License and GNU Readline

GnuTLS

GnuTLS (the GNU Transport Layer Security Library) is a free software implementation of the TLS, SSL and DTLS protocols.

See GNU General Public License and GnuTLS

Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

See GNU General Public License and Google

Google Developers

Google Developers (previously Google Code), application programming interfaces (APIs), and technical resources.

See GNU General Public License and Google Developers

GPL font exception

The GPL font exception clause (or GPL+FE, for short) is an optional clause that can be added to the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) permitting digital fonts shared with that license to be embedded within a digital document file without requiring the document itself to also be shared with GPL. GNU General Public License and GPL font exception are copyleft, free and open-source software licenses and GNU Project.

See GNU General Public License and GPL font exception

GPL linking exception

A GPL linking exception modifies the GNU General Public License (GPL) in a way that enables software projects which provide library code to be "linked to" the programs that use them, without applying the full terms of the GPL to the using program. GNU General Public License and GPL linking exception are copyleft software licenses and GNU Project.

See GNU General Public License and GPL linking exception

Gpl-violations.org

gpl-violations.org is a not-for-profit project founded and led by Harald Welte in 2004. GNU General Public License and Gpl-violations.org are GNU Project.

See GNU General Public License and Gpl-violations.org

Graphics card

A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.

See GNU General Public License and Graphics card

Gratis versus libre

The adjective free in English is commonly used in one of two meanings: "at no monetary cost" (gratis) or "with little or no restriction" (libre).

See GNU General Public License and Gratis versus libre

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a major Linux kernel developer.

See GNU General Public License and Greg Kroah-Hartman

Hancom

Hancom (KOSDAQ: 030520) is an office suite software developer in South Korea.

See GNU General Public License and Hancom

Harald Welte

Harald Welte, also known as LaForge, is a German programmer.

See GNU General Public License and Harald Welte

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

See GNU General Public License and Harvard University

HTTP

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

See GNU General Public License and HTTP

Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian, and briefly known before its release as Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows.

See GNU General Public License and Hyper-V

Ibiblio

ibiblio (formerly SunSITE.unc.edu and MetaLab.unc.edu) is a "collection of collections", and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source content, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

See GNU General Public License and Ibiblio

IfrOSS

Institut für Rechtsfragen der Freien und Open Source Software, abbreviated to ifrOSS, (English: Institute for legal issues regarding free and open source software) is a German organisation that provides legal services for free software.

See GNU General Public License and IfrOSS

Injunction

An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a special court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts.

See GNU General Public License and Injunction

International Data Group

International Data Group (IDG, Inc.) is a market intelligence and demand generation company focused on the technology industry.

See GNU General Public License and International Data Group

Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).

See GNU General Public License and Internet Engineering Task Force

Iptables

iptables is a user-space utility program that allows a system administrator to configure the IP packet filter rules of the Linux kernel firewall, implemented as different Netfilter modules.

See GNU General Public License and Iptables

Jacqueline Scott Corley

Jacqueline Scott Corley (née Jacqueline Marie Scott, born 1966) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

See GNU General Public License and Jacqueline Scott Corley

Jargon File

The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers.

See GNU General Public License and Jargon File

Joyent

Joyent Inc. is a software and services company based in San Francisco, California.

See GNU General Public License and Joyent

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the philosophy and theory of law.

See GNU General Public License and Jurisprudence

Lawrence Rosen (attorney)

Lawrence Rosen (also Larry Rosen) is an American attorney and computer specialist.

See GNU General Public License and Lawrence Rosen (attorney)

Lawsuit

A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.

See GNU General Public License and Lawsuit

Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc.

Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc.

See GNU General Public License and Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc.

LibreCAD

LibreCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) application for 2D design.

See GNU General Public License and LibreCAD

LibreDWG

GNU LibreDWG is a software library programmed in C to manage DWG computer files, native proprietary format of computer-aided design software AutoCAD.

See GNU General Public License and LibreDWG

License

A license (US) or licence (Commonwealth) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).

See GNU General Public License and License

License compatibility

License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together.

See GNU General Public License and License compatibility

License proliferation

License proliferation is the phenomenon of an abundance of already existing and the continued creation of new software licenses for software and software packages in the FOSS ecosystem. GNU General Public License and license proliferation are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and License proliferation

Linksys WRT54G series

The Linksys WRT54G Wi-Fi series is a series of Wi-Fi–capable residential gateways marketed by Linksys, a subsidiary of Cisco, from 2003 until acquired by Belkin in 2013.

See GNU General Public License and Linksys WRT54G series

Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.

See GNU General Public License and Linus Torvalds

Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

See GNU General Public License and Linux

Linux distribution

A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system.

See GNU General Public License and Linux distribution

Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to support Linux development and open-source software projects.

See GNU General Public License and Linux Foundation

Linux Journal

Linux Journal (LJ) is an American monthly technology magazine originally published by Specialized System Consultants, Inc. (SSC) in Seattle, Washington since 1994.

See GNU General Public License and Linux Journal

Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide.

See GNU General Public License and Linux kernel

Loadable kernel module

In computing, a loadable kernel module (LKM) is an object file that contains code to extend the running kernel, or so-called base kernel, of an operating system.

See GNU General Public License and Loadable kernel module

LWN.net

LWN.net is a computing webzine with an emphasis on free software and software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

See GNU General Public License and LWN.net

Mac App Store

The Mac App Store (also known as the App Store) is a digital distribution platform for macOS apps, often referred to as Mac apps, created and maintained by Apple Inc. The platform was announced on October 20, 2010, at Apple's "Back to the Mac" event.

See GNU General Public License and Mac App Store

MediaWiki

MediaWiki is free and open-source wiki software originally developed by Magnus Manske for use on Wikipedia on January 25, 2002, and further improved by Lee Daniel Crocker,Magnus Manske's announcement of "PHP Wikipedia", wikipedia-l, August 24, 2001 after which it has been coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation.

See GNU General Public License and MediaWiki

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

See GNU General Public License and Microsoft

MIT License

The MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. GNU General Public License and MIT License are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and MIT License

Modular programming

Modular programming is a software design technique that emphasizes separating the functionality of a program into independent, interchangeable modules, such that each contains everything necessary to execute only one aspect of the desired functionality.

See GNU General Public License and Modular programming

Mozilla Application Suite

The Mozilla Application Suite (originally known as Mozilla, marketed as the Mozilla Suite) is a discontinued cross-platform integrated Internet suite.

See GNU General Public License and Mozilla Application Suite

Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project.

See GNU General Public License and Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source email client software which also functions as a full personal information manager with a calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix), and news client.

See GNU General Public License and Mozilla Thunderbird

Multi-licensing

Multi-licensing is the practice of distributing software under two or more different sets of terms and conditions.

See GNU General Public License and Multi-licensing

Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

See GNU General Public License and Munich

MySQL

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).

See GNU General Public License and MySQL

MySQL AB

MySQL AB was a Swedish software company founded in 1995.

See GNU General Public License and MySQL AB

NetBSD

NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

See GNU General Public License and NetBSD

Netfilter

Netfilter is a framework provided by the Linux kernel that allows various networking-related operations to be implemented in the form of customized handlers.

See GNU General Public License and Netfilter

Network-attached storage

Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level (as opposed to block-level storage) computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients.

See GNU General Public License and Network-attached storage

NeXT

NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California that specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed web software.

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Nikolai Bezroukov

Nikolai Bezroukov is a Senior Internet Security Analyst at BASF Corporation and was member of Computer Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University (New Jersey, United States).

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Nokia

Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj in Finnish and Nokia Abp in Swedish, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865.

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Novell

Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

See GNU General Public License and Nvidia

O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.

See GNU General Public License and O'Reilly Media

Obfuscation (software)

In software development, obfuscation is the act of creating source or machine code that is difficult for humans or computers to understand.

See GNU General Public License and Obfuscation (software)

Objective-C

Objective-C is a high-level general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.

See GNU General Public License and Objective-C

Open Source Initiative

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the steward of the Open Source Definition, the most widely used standard for open-source software.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

See GNU General Public License and Open-source software

Patch (Unix)

The computer tool patch is a Unix program that updates text files according to instructions contained in a separate file, called a patch file.

See GNU General Public License and Patch (Unix)

Patent infringement

Patent infringement is an unauthorized act of - for example - making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these purposes a patented product.

See GNU General Public License and Patent infringement

Pearson Education

Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.

See GNU General Public License and Pearson Education

Permissive software license

A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and redistributed, usually including a warranty disclaimer. GNU General Public License and permissive software license are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and Permissive software license

Phoronix Test Suite

Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems.

See GNU General Public License and Phoronix Test Suite

Plug-in (computing)

In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.

See GNU General Public License and Plug-in (computing)

Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Project Monterey

Project Monterey was an attempt to build a single Unix operating system that ran across a variety of 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, as well as supporting multi-processing.

See GNU General Public License and Project Monterey

Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

See GNU General Public License and Proprietary software

Public information licence

The freely reusable public information licence (French:Licence information publique librement réutilisable or LIP) is a public copyright license, created 2 April 2010, that permits the free and open reuse, commercially or not, of information released by a French public institution, on condition of respecting article 12 of the law of 17 July 1978.

See GNU General Public License and Public information licence

PyQt

PyQt is a Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt, implemented as a Python plug-in.

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Qt (software)

Qt (pronounced "cute" or as an initialism) is cross-platform application development framework for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms such as Linux, Windows, macOS, Android or embedded systems with little or no change in the underlying codebase while still being a native application with native capabilities and speed.

See GNU General Public License and Qt (software)

Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM.

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Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux was a widely used commercial open-source Linux distribution created by Red Hat until its discontinuation in 2004.

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Richard Fontana

Richard Fontana is a lawyer in the United States who is particularly known for his work in the area of open source and free software.

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Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer.

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Robert J. Chassell

Robert "Bob" Chassell was one of the founding directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

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Sam Hocevar

Samuel Hocevar (born 5 August 1978) is a French software and video game developer.

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SCO Group

The SCO Group (often referred to SCO and later called The TSG Group) was an American software company in existence from 2002 to 2012 that became known for owning Unix operating system assets that had belonged to the Santa Cruz Operation (the original SCO), including the UnixWare and OpenServer technologies, and then, under CEO Darl McBride, pursuing a series of high-profile legal battles known as the SCO-Linux controversies.

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Severability

In law, severability (sometimes known as salvatorius, from Latin) refers to a provision in a contract or piece of legislation which states that if some of the terms are held to be illegal or otherwise unenforceable, the remainder should still apply.

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Shareware

Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Software component

A software component is a modular unit of software that encapsulates specific functionality.

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Software Freedom Law Center

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is an organization that provides pro bono legal representation and related services to not-for-profit developers of free software/open source software.

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Software in the Public Interest

Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization domiciled in New York State formed to help other organizations create and distribute free open-source software and open-source hardware.

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Software patents and free software

Opposition to software patents is widespread in the free software community.

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Software relicensing

Software relicensing is applied in open-source software development when software licenses of software modules are incompatible and are required to be compatible for a greater combined work.

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Software repository

A software repository, or repo for short, is a storage location for software packages.

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Source code

In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language.

See GNU General Public License and Source code

SourceForge

SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software.

See GNU General Public License and SourceForge

Static library

In computer science, a static library or statically linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, producing an object file and a stand-alone executable.

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Stet (software)

stet is a free software package for gathering comments about a text document via a webpage.

See GNU General Public License and Stet (software)

Steve Ballmer

Steven Anthony Ballmer (March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014.

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Stockfish (chess)

Stockfish is a free and open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms.

See GNU General Public License and Stockfish (chess)

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.

See GNU General Public License and Sun Microsystems

The Free Software Definition

The Free Software Definition written by Richard Stallman and published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), defines free software as being software that ensures that the users have freedom in using, studying, sharing and modifying that software. GNU General Public License and the Free Software Definition are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and The Free Software Definition

The Register

The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.

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Theme (computing)

In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance and functionality details.

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Threshold of originality

The threshold of originality is a concept in copyright law that is used to assess whether a particular work can be copyrighted.

See GNU General Public License and Threshold of originality

Tivoization

Tivoization is the practice of designing hardware that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license like the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), but uses hardware restrictions or digital rights management (DRM) to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware.

See GNU General Public License and Tivoization

Toybox

Toybox is a free and open-source software implementation of over 200 Unix command line utilities such as ls, cp, and mv.

See GNU General Public License and Toybox

Trade secret

Trade secrets are a type of intellectual property that includes formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patterns, or compilations of information that have inherent economic value because they are not generally known or readily ascertainable by others, and which their owner takes reasonable measures to keep secret.

See GNU General Public License and Trade secret

Typeface

A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.

See GNU General Public License and Typeface

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software.

See GNU General Public License and Ubuntu

Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu Software Center, or simply Software Center, is a discontinued high-level graphical front end for the APT/dpkg package management system.

See GNU General Public License and Ubuntu Software Center

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts.

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United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (in case citations, D. Mass.) is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States.

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United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (in case citations, S.D. Ind.) is a federal district court in Indiana.

See GNU General Public License and United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

University of Victoria

The University of Victoria (UVic) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada.

See GNU General Public License and University of Victoria

Virtual private network

Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable).

See GNU General Public License and Virtual private network

VLC media player

VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project.

See GNU General Public License and VLC media player

Wallace v. International Business Machines Corp.

Wallace v. International Business Machines Corp., 467 F.3d 1104 (7th Cir. 2006), was a significant case in the development of free software.

See GNU General Public License and Wallace v. International Business Machines Corp.

Wget

GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl, also written as its package name, wget) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers.

See GNU General Public License and Wget

Whurley

William Hurley (born March 30, 1971), commonly known as whurley, is an American tech entrepreneur and investor who founded Chaotic Moon Studios, Honest Dollar, Silicon Hills News, March 13, 2015.

See GNU General Public License and Whurley

Windows Services for UNIX

Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its immediate successor operating-systems.

See GNU General Public License and Windows Services for UNIX

The World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (WIPO Copyright Treaty or WCT) is an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1996.

See GNU General Public License and WIPO Copyright Treaty

Wireless router

A wireless router or Wi-Fi router is a device that performs the functions of a router and also includes the functions of a wireless access point.

See GNU General Public License and Wireless router

WordPress

WordPress (also known as WP or WordPress.org) is a web content management system.

See GNU General Public License and WordPress

WTFPL

The WTFPL is a permissive free software license. GNU General Public License and WTFPL are free and open-source software licenses.

See GNU General Public License and WTFPL

YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

See GNU General Public License and YouTube

ZFS

ZFS (previously Zettabyte File System) is a file system with volume management capabilities.

See GNU General Public License and ZFS

See also

Copyleft

Copyleft software licenses

GNU Project

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

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