General Public licence ; licence protecting free software. JEphem is released under this licence.
General Public Licence: A standard software licence for freeware published by FSF.
To protect the GNU project software from being appropriated for proprietary use by hardware vendors, the Free Software Foundation released their software under the GPL or General Public License.
Stands for General Public License. See http://www.linuxberg.com/gpllicense.html for more information.
The General Public License. This is the most well known license for distributing software created by the Free Software Foundation.
The GNU General Public License. It is an extensive document outlining the rights and restrictions given to people who use GNU software. It guarantees that the source code will always be available free of charge, and that any modifications made to the program, if released to the public, must also be released under the GPL. Many free software advocates believe that the GPL is too restrictive and prefer a licensing scheme that still allows customers to use code from free software in their proprietary, non-free programs.
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GNU General Public License; a software license created by the Free Software Foundation defining the terms for releasing free software.
General Public Licence, a model licence for open source software
The GNU General Public License defends Free Softwares from being stolen and taken as proprietary softwares. It can be found at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
GPL stands for the GNU Public License. This is a free software license created by the Free Software Foundation. The Linux kernel is licensed under the GPL.
The GNU General Public License (GPL) which restricts users of GPL'd software to releasing any source code modifications they have made to the software if they distribute their modified code as a binary. More information can be found at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html See also: FDL, FSF, Gentoo, GNU, Judicial, Kernel, License, Linux, Source Mage
The short of it is quite simple: if you based anything on GPLed software, you MUST provide the source code to your software upon request. The legalities...
An abbreviation that stands for "General Purpose License." This license was first written by Richard Stallman to control the usage of software created by the GNU project. A user is free to read and modify the source code of a GPL-protected package, but the user must agree to distribute any changes or improvements if they distribute the software at all. Stallman views the license as a way to force people to share their own improvements and contribute back to the project if they benefit from the project's hard work. See also BSD. 1462
The licenses for most software are designed to prevent users from sharing or changing it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee the freedom to share and change free software - to make sure the software is free for all its users. The GPL is designed to make sure that anyone can distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if they wish); that they receive source code or can get it if they want; that they can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that they know they can do these things. The GPL forbids anyone to deny others these rights or to ask them to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for those who distribute copies of the software or modify it. Source: Foldoc: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
See "General Public License."
The GNU General Public License is a form of copyright that is commonly applied to software that the authors wish to distribute for the common good. Paraphrased, it says that the software may be altered and re-distributed as desired but that the original code must also be distributed. AIPS++ is covered by the GPL. For more details on the GPL, see the complete form.
I just had to point out that lkml is for Linux kernel development discussions. Please please don't engage in any threads concerning licensing issues, Microsoft, or Richard Stallman. Please.
Acronym for General Public License. An open-source software license developed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) that grants licensees the right to copy, examine, and modify the source code as long as subsequent distributions extend the same privileges to new recipients.
GNU Public Licence - A licence applied to a program to specify it can be distributed and modified to/by anyone, but if a modified version is distributed, the source must be distributed too.
GNU General Public License. En programmellicens som blev lavet af Free Software Foundation, som definerer betingelserne for at udgive frit programmel.
is the abbreviation of General Public License and labels software which is available as source code for free copying and modifying. Software which makes use of GPL-software also fall under GPL.
The GNU Public License provides for free access to software published under its terms. Users are allowed to copy, modify, and redistribute GPL software.
LGPL - GNU General Public License/Lesser General Public License The full license text can be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. The licenses under which the Linux kernel and much of the utility and library code necessary to build a complete system may be copied, distributed and modified. Each portion of the software is copyright by its respected copyright holder, and you must comply with the terms of the license in order to legally copy (and hence use) it. One significant requirement is that you freely redistribute any modifications you make; if you can't cope with this, embedded Linux isn't for you.
Please see Open Source Software.
Acronym for the "GNU Public License", one of the main licensing documents under which most open source software is distributed. The GPL states that anyone using open source software code in any applications they create must make the relevant code of their applications available for free public viewing under the GPL.
GPL - Gnu Public License. This basically means you have permission to run the program, copy the program, modify the program, distribute the modified program, but you cannot add restrictions of your own. This is statement is part of the "Copyleft" twist on the standard copyright law. More info is available from http://www.gnu.org.
(GNU Public License) It is a license created by the Free Software Foundation. The purpose of the GPL is to grant any user the right to copy, modify and redistribute programs and source code from developers that have chosen to license their work under the GPL.