About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Creative Commons-licensed works, GNU Project, Open Publication License-licensed works, Free software movement, Independent Media Center, GNU Lesser General Public License, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, GNU Manifesto, Public Library of Science, MIT OpenCourseWare, Magnatune, GNU General Public License, OpenStreetMap, GNU Free Documentation License, Doom WAD, Jargon File, Affero General Public License, List of works available under a Creative Commons License, Ekopedia, OpenSeaMap, List of open content films, Manituana, GNU-Darwin, A Swarm of Angels, Yo Frankie!, List of Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software, Kreislauf, GPL linking exception, Alive in Joburg, GNU Coding Standards, Tagmar, Whitehouse.gov, Gpl-violations.org, Kamusi project, GNU Savannah, Libre.fm, Linux For You, Electrobel, Dogmazic, GetPaid, GNAT Modified General Public License, Onion Club, Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman, OpenLearn.in, GNU.FREE, Gnits Standards, Gnulib, The Magic Cauldron, Flash MP3 Player, Flash Gallery, Notre Dame OpenCourseWare, Tectonic Magazine, GCIDE. Excerpt: The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the first copyleft license for general use, which means that derived works can only be distributed under the same license terms. Under this philosophy, the GPL grants the recipients of a computer program the rights of the free software definition and uses copyleft to ensure the freedoms are preserved, even when the work is changed or added to. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD licenses are the standard examples. The text of the GPL is no...
