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| | Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation CNET News.com |
 | | GPL author Richard Stallman said he's working on amendments that could deal better with software patents; clarify how GPL software may be used in some networked environments and on carefully controlled hardware; and lower some barriers that today prevent the mixing of software covered by the GPL and other licenses. | | | In the 13 years since the current GPL version 2 was released, the license has moved from the fringes to the center of the computing industry. | | | The GPL governs the programming instructions called source code that developers write and then convert into the binary files that computers understand. |
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http://news.com.com/Sprucing+up+...+GPL+foundation/2100-7344_3-5501561.html
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| | GNU General Public License - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Note that the copyleft only applies to the software and not to its output (unless that output is itself a derivative work of the program); for example, a web portal running a modified GPL content management system is not required to distribute its changes to the underlying software. | | | An unintended side-effect of the GPL delineating between "internal" derivative code and "external" linked libraries has been a pronounced tendency for software developed under this license to grow increasingly monolithic. | | | As of April 2004, the GPL accounted for nearly 75% of the 23,479 free-software projects listed on Freshmeat, and about 68% of the projects listed on SourceForge. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL
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| | BSD license vs. GPL |
| | In essence if you the author of some useful addition to the GPL program that was widely adopted and developed further you are denied any subsequent modification, enhancement of your ideas in...case you [are a] commercial developer. | | | This means that the GPL prevents even the original authors from changing GPL code to proprietary code. | | | Therefore, by release code as GPL, the original developers are also depriving themselves of the option to benefit from the open source development process and then eventually turning the code into a proprietary product. |
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/975943604/index_html
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| | NewsForge Why I love the GPL |
| | GPL does inhibit good people making a few dollars off their code (commercial software dev not custom software dev). | | | The GPL is in a way viral in that what you develop on top of that code must also be GPL. | | | One of the big points of confusion of GPL pundits is that software should be free because it is fundamentally a non-rivalous resource. |
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http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/05/01/24/2141242.shtml?tid=29
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| | Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else. |
| | Many OSS/FS developers prefer the GPL, because they believe the GPL (1) provides a better quid-pro-quo for developers, (2) establishes collaboration between people and companies better than consortia, (3) protects their work in today’s less-than-kind environment, and/or (4) encourages increasing the amount of Free Software. | | | One way, of course, is to use the GPL. | | | This essay is a call to all those developers who are developing open source software / Free Software (OSS/FS, also called FLOSS or FOSS). |
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http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html
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| | Opinion: License to FUD (comparing GPL and BSD) |
| | But for most other uses, either GPL or full proprietary is preferred in the not-so-kind computing environment of today. | | | These people explained that developers consider the GPL to be in their interest, even though the GPL forces them (and subsequent developers) to publish any updates or modifications. | | | Many appear to use the GPL simply as a way to balance the playing field for certain core elements of computer software. |
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4739816141.html
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| | morons.org - GPL Considered Harmful |
| | Yes, the explicit purpose of the GPL is to hurt programmers' livelihoods. | | | In addition, it is required that this code be obtained from internal company FTP server, rather than the Internet at large, so that it has been verified as not incorporating any company patents at the time it a snapshot is taken for the project for which you wish to use it. | | | Using a software license with a political agenda of this magnitude is unconscionable. |
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http://web.morons.org/feature/rants/gpl-harmful.jsp
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| | The OpenSSL License and The GPL |
| | However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable. | | | There is some disagreement about what this exception means when the both the GPL program and the GPL incompatible library are shipped as part of the operating system. | | | The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. |
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http://www.gnome.org/%7Emarkmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
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| | FSF - Licenses |
| | As a special exception, you have permission to link this program with the FOO library and distribute executables, as long as you follow the requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the software in the executable aside from FOO. | | | It is not in use yet to our knowledge; this license is being considered for use in Perl 6 as part of a disjunctive dual licensing scheme. | | | Since the QPL is incompatible with the GNU GPL, you cannot take a GPL-covered program and QPL-covered program and link them together, no matter how. |
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http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses
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| | GPL Replay Analyser Homepage |
| | GPL Replay Analyser is free of charge for non-commercial use. | | | GPL Replay Analyser version 7.62 - September 18, 2004 (866 kb installer) | | | Thanks to new findings in the GPL trk-format made by Nigel Pattinson we now can draw the driving lines with much better precision than before. |
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http://gplra.pike.nu
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| | GPL Foolishness |
| | George has created a description of how they work that will give you an idea of the complexity involved in editing third-party objects using unreliable tools. | | | These could be trees, pieces of kerb, fence posts or changes in tarmac texture. | | | Normally, the AI do very little overtaking and less than half the field finishes the race (can you think of a modern equivalent?!). |
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http://website.lineone.net/~richardn
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| | TrkCAMEdit homepage |
| | However, the program will not check if your input was logically correct. | | | Setting the value to 1 makes GPL use camera values #9 to #12 for zoom and picture location. | | | For example, if your track has an overall length of 4 km an you enter 5000 as number for value #1 (see chapter 4 for an explanation of all values), then TrkCAMEdit would accept the input, but GPL hardly would. |
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http://www.joachimblum.de/trkcamedit.htm
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| | LWN: The FSF GPL Compliance Lab |
| | Companies that release code under the GPL do so in the hope that their competitors will not take unfair advantage of that code and distribute proprietary enhancements. | | | The OSI is the noisy newcomer, and the FSFGPLCL (tee hee hee) | | | But the PR is also interesting in that it is the first public mention we could find of the "GPL Compliance Lab." So we contacted the FSF to learn a little more about it. |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/15342
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| | Reciprocity and the GPL |
| | Such software can be incorporated into GPL-licensed software but the converse is not true. | | | It guarantees that all derivative works of GPL-licensed software will also be GPL-licensed software. | | | They too have created islands of software from which nothing can escape. |
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http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=353550
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| | What are the licensing terms? |
| | This means that unless you modify the tools so that compiled executables do not make use of the Cygwin library, your compiled programs will also have to be free software distributed under the GPL with source code available to all. | | | The Cygwin API library found in the winsup subdirectory of the source code is also covered by the GNU GPL (with exceptions; see below). | | | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
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http://cygwin.com/licensing.html
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| | Mozilla Relicensing FAQ |
| | Since the people in question presumably chose to use the LGPL (and not the GPL) for some reason important to them, it would be preferable to arrange the Mozilla licensing scheme so that they could include Mozilla code and still use the LGPL for the resulting works. | | | Thus, for example, it has always been true, and will continue to be true, that Mozilla code distributed through mozilla.org can be combined with other code to create larger works which can be distributed under proprietary license terms. | | | The original intent behind the changes to the Mozilla licensing scheme was to allow Mozilla code to be combined with other code to create larger works which could be distributed under GPL terms. |
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http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html
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| | Licenses |
| | 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. | | | Documentation for free software should be free documentation, so that people can redistribute it and improve it along with the software it describes. | | | You don't have to modify the GNU GPL to do this, just add notices to your program which refer properly to the GNU GPL. |
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
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| | affero.org: affero general public license |
| | You will find it nearly identical to the GNU GPL, with an addition of section 2 (d), which covers use of the software over a computer network. | | | If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. | | | Each version is given a distinguishing version number. |
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http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html
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| | What is GPL? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | The GPL does not cover activities other than the copying, distributing and modifying of the source code. | | | A directory of open source computer licenses from the Open Directory Project. | | | Short for General Public License, the license that accompanies some open source software that details how the software and its accompany source code can be freely copied, distributed and modified. |
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http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/TERM/G/GPL.html
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| | GPL Track Database |
| | To install all current patches for GPL from Papyrus you need to download and install five separate patches and also carefully read six different "read me" instruction files to be able to add the text neccesary into the core.ini file for example. | | | If you have manually edited your core.ini file these edits will be lost since this installer replaces it with the one included here. | | | For old GPL'ers this poses no problem but if you just got the game this is a daunting task. |
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http://trackdb.d2g.com/all-in-one.asp
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: BSD & GPL licensing |
| | However, the BSD license allows commercial organizations to build upon the inventions of free software and research environments that use free software licenses to further develop their programs. | | | There has been continuing discussion over the relative merits of the use of either license in free software projects. | | | Proponents of copyleft-style software licenses such as the GPL argue that the non-copyleft nature of the BSD license becomes detrimental to open source in general, as it does not expressly require that users who extend BSD-licensed software must openly release their modifications. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/B/BS/BSD/BSD_and_GPL_licensing
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| | Ringtrainer Online Help |
| | However, if your computer is fast enough, you may want to use the hotkey-option. | | | Unfortunately this requires some computing power so I left it optional for those who don't have the big PIII or Athlon under their desk ;). | | | I did some research and found a method on how to do this from within a program and then from within GPL. |
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http://www.joachimblum.de/ringtrainer.htm
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| | Rewriting GPL No Easy Task |
| | Moglen defended the need for a longer license, saying that computer programming has changed since 1991 and that there will be changes to the language around the paradigm of programming changes, resulting in "much arm waving and breast thumping about these changes." | | | But those changes in programming paradigms are neither better nor worse than the paradigms they replaced or of those that will replace them going forward," Moglen said. | | | The latest version of the current GPL license, known as GPL Version 2.2 and dated August 2004, is not that different from the present license. |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1758752,00.asp
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| | MySQL AB :: MySQL Open Source License |
| | This is a great opportunity for the open source community and those of you who are developing open source software. | | | Thereby, you are free to use MySQL software free of charge under the GPL license. | | | You are allowed to modify MySQL Software source code any way you like as long as the distributed derivative work is licensed under the GPL as well. |
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http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/opensource-license.html
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| | Wired News: Letter: Free Software Hurts U.S. |
| | Some divisions of the U.S. government already run Linux and open-source software, and federal research dollars are beginning to trickle into GPL projects like the National Security Agency-funded Security-Enhanced Linux project. | | | In a section of recommendations for home and small-business users, it advises that Windows, Macintosh and Linux users regularly update their operating systems. | | | Open-source advocates say this controversy is just one of the opening salvos in what they expect will become a major struggle to define the role of open-source and GPL software in the federal government. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,55989,00.html
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| | GPL linking exception at opensource encyclopedia |
| | Some free software projects, like GNU Classpath, distribute code under the terms of the GPL but with the following clarification and special exception: | | | Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. | | | "GPL linking exception" in world wide web people finder »; |
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http://wiki.tatet.com/GPL_linking_exception.html
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| | GPL Changers - utilities for Grand Prix Legends |
| | GPL Changers does not rewrite gpl.exe or files except ini files. | | | *GPL on this site is not 'General Public License'. | | | GPL++, GPL Track Database, GPL Rank, Fred Faster's Nick site, SpeedGeezers, Eagle Women's GPL, GPL Foolishness, FullGrid |
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http://shutaro-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/gplcsc
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| | Sim Editing, 3DSimeED, TrkMaker, F1CC, GTR, rFactor, Nascar SimRacing, Editing Tracks, Converting tracks, Dave Noonan |
| | The initial database can be created from a GPL.TRK or N2003.PTF giving you a way, for example, to start with a GPL track and build N2003 and other format tracks in a matter of hours. | | | Please note that these utilities are not converters but are designed to help track authors to create their tracks in the format they choose. | | | This data can then be exported to Papyrus N2003, F1CC, GTR, Nascar SimRacing or.3DS format. |
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http://www.sim-garage.co.uk
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| | GPL.tv |
| | when pressing cancel in the "Path to GPL" dialog the program forgot the path -> fixed | | | The GPL.tv server will send the chat messages on the GPL server, so you can read the complete action (whispered messages are not transmitted, of course). | | | GPL.tv does not need a special installation, just unzip the file gpltv.exe to your harddisk, launch it and select the path to your GPL directory. |
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http://home.arcor.de/soeren_scharf/GPLtv
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| | Gpl - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | SCO must defend against GPL : An article from: Software Development Times | | | GPL: ALBERTA'S SUSTAINABILITY TRENDS.(Statistical Data Included) : An article from: Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis | | | Final report of the GPL navigation system analysis (M.I.T. Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/gpl.htm
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| | Brazilian Government First to Adopt New "CC-GPL" Creative Commons |
| | With the CC-GPL, Creative Commons has applied its three-layer user interface to the FSF's classic software license. | | | The Foundation also develops, publishes, and secures compliance with the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) and GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL), which are the world's most widely used free software licenses. | | | "Brazilian government adoption of the GPL is an enormous step forward in the cause of software freedom," said Professor Eben Moglen of Columbia Law School and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. |
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http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/3919
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| | www.waveski.info - Encyclopedia |
| | This is free software, and you may redistribute it under the GPL. | | | The comments are property of their posters, all the rest © 2002-2005 by Desequel Technologies Limited exept where noted. | | | PHP-Nuke comes with absolutely no warranty, for details, see the license. |
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http://www.waveski.info/nuke/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia
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| | Bart Westra's GPL Garage |
| | Here is a zip file containing 3 example core.ini files for GPL 1.1.0.3 and GPL 1.2.0.1. | | | There is support for GPL 1.2.0.1 as well as GPL 1.2.0.2 (Cpu fix). | | | The solution is to use strictly equal server_send_sizes on a non-dedicated server. |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~westrab/gpl.htm
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| | FSF - GNU General Public License |
| | The GNU General Public License (GPL) in Texinfo format | | | The GNU General Public License (GPL) as an appendix in DocBook format | | | The GNU General Public License (GPL) in plain text format |
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http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
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| | The GPL Track database has moved here: trackdb.d2g.com |
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http://magnust.d2g.com
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| | Roland Support :: GPL/LGPL |
| | Roland provides this web page for those interested in Roland or Edirol products with software components that are licensed under a public license such as the GNU General Public License (GPL) and/or GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). | | | If you need more support related to the GPL/LGPL, please visit your nearest EDIROL websites. |
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http://www.roland.com/support/gpl
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| | GPL Historical Room |
| | The GPL Historical Room houses many books of historical and genealogical interest. | | | The Historical Room is open to the public on Wednesday mornings, from 10 to noon, and also by appointment. | | | The Historical Room will not be open on Wednesday, April 7th. |
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http://www.gpl.org/Gplweb/historical.htm
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| | GPLRank - Homepage |
| | A few seats are still available for this fast growing GPL league. | | | All skill levels are welcome and there is no handicapping in this Pro Long F1 league. | | | AERL invites you to its exciting 4th season of GPL racing. |
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http://gplrank.schuerkamp.de
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| | Linux |
| | Has a well-articulated argument for making source code freely available. | | | GMA is written in C++, and requires STL to compile. | | | Nice discussion of alternatives to GPL; GPL is one of the *less* desirable alternatives. |
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http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/linux.html
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