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@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or @@ -8,6 +6,8 @@ Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +[[!meta title="GNU General Public License"]] + The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a [Free Software](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) license created by Richard Stallman in 1989 for Free Software creators. The GPL grants users the Four Freedoms: @@ -20,3 +20,8 @@ The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a [Free Software](https://www.gnu.org/ph Since it's debut, the license has become extremely popular & wide-spread. The GPL has gone through 3 revisions, with GPLv3 being the latest. GPLv3 allows any user to access, modify, and redistribute the source code, given that the redistributed version of the software is also released as GPLv3. For example, if you create a pice of software named "FreedomJuice" under the GPLv3, and I download & moify it and name it "xFreedomJuicex", I cannot release xFreedomJuicex under the MIT license, it has to be GPLv3 as well. + +--- +# External Links +* [The GPL's Homepage](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) +* [[!wikipedia GPL]] on Wikipedia |