2007年6月29日 · We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too. When we speak of free software, we …

2022年1月4日 · We'll start with a brief refresher on free software, copyleft, and the goals of the GPL. We'll then review the major changes in the license to see how they advance those goals and benefit developers. Nobody should be restricted by the software they use. There are four freedoms that every user should have: the freedom to share the changes you make.

2024年10月15日 · Why should I use the GNU GPL rather than other free software licenses? Using the GNU GPL will require that all the released improved versions be free software. This means you can avoid the risk of having to compete with a …

2008年2月5日 · This license, commonly known as the GPL, has two versions that are actively and widely used in many open source communities: If you have licensed software you’ve written under GPL version 2, and you are the original licensor of that software, you may wish to relicense your software under GPL version 3.

The GNU General Public License, often shortened to GNU GPL (or simply GPL), lists terms and conditions for the copying, modification and redistribution of open source software. The GPL was created by Richard Stallman in order to protect GNU software from being made proprietary.

2024年8月26日 · Before we dive into the specifics of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3, let’s talk first about what it means to have an open source license. Unlike proprietary software, open source allows for use, modification, and distribution, within the legal constraints defined by the license.

The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a computer software copyleft license. This license lets the user of the software use a program in many of the same ways as if it were public domain. They can use it, change it, and copy it. They can also sell or give away copies of the program with or without any changes they made to it.

GNU 通用公共许可协议（英语：GNU General Public License，简称GNU GPL或GPL），是一个广泛被使用的自由软件许可协议，最初由 理查德·斯托曼 为 GNU计划 而撰写。 此许可协议最新版本为“第3版”（v3），2007年6月29日发布。 GNU宽通用公共许可协议（英语：GNU Lesser General Public License，一般简称 LGPL）是改自GPL的另一个版本，其目的是为了应用于一 …

This part of the tutorial gives a comprehensive explanation of the most popular Free Software copyright license, the GNU General Public License (“GNU GPL”, or sometimes just “GPL”) – both version 2 (“GPLv2”) and version 3 (“GPLv3”) – and teaches lawyers, software developers, managers and businesspeople how to use the GPL ...

2020年9月22日 · What is the GPL License? The GPL License is a free software license that allows software to be modified or redistributed without any restrictions or compulsory payments for the licensed code. the GPL license is used by Developers to ensure that their code does not become proprietary when modified.