This license contains the terms and conditions needed to make free software programs
available to the public. With this license, the software can be changed under certain
conditions and redistributed.
This license contains the terms and conditions needed to make free software programs
available to the public. With this license, the software can be changed under certain
conditions and redistributed.
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The GNU General Public License is often called the GNU GPL for short; it is used by most GNU programs, and by more than half of all free software packages.
GPL is enforceable as it's essentially a copyright license. The copyright holders of the GPL software can choose to enforce the GPL on the distributed or derivative works of the software. For example, the FSF holds the copyrights on many pieces of the GNU system, such as the GNU Compiler Collection.
Software under the GPL may be run for all purposes, including commercial purposes and even as a tool for creating proprietary software, such as when using GPL-licensed compilers. Users or companies who distribute GPL-licensed works (e.g. software), may charge a fee for copies or give them free of charge.
The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public. The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community.
You can distribute your application using a GPL library commercially, but you must also provide the source code.
The previous post in our series on popular open source software (OSS) licenses went through the ins-and-outs of the GNU GPL v2 license, a copyleft license originally published by the GNU Project.
The GPL is a free software license, and therefore it permits people to use and even redistribute the software without being required to pay anyone a fee for doing so. You can charge people a fee to get a copy from you. You can't require people to pay you when they get a copy from someone else.
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a member of the GNU family of open source licenses, along with the GNU GPL v2, the GNU GPL v3, and the GNU AGPL License. Like the others, it was published by the Free Software Foundation as part of Richard Stallman's GNU Project.
GNU GPL is a copyright license. You can use and distribute software under the terms and condition of its license only. Hope this clears the difference between GPL and public domain software.
The purpose of the GNU Affero GPL is to prevent a problem that affects developers of free programs that are often used on servers. The Open Source Initiative approved the GNU AGPLv3 as an open source license in March 2008 after the company Funambol submitted it for consideration through its CEO Fabrizio Capobianco.