's ruling this month said that a company that use GPL'ed code must give the source to whom the request. What is surprising is that those who demanded was a user, not the author of the software as they had in Germany. Full Review iTWire
What is GPL?: The GNU General Public License, better known by its English name GNU General License or simply publish it its English acronym GNU GPL is a license created by Free Software Foundation in 1989 (the first version), and is aimed primarily at protecting the free distribution, modification and use of software. Its purpose is to declare that the software covered by this license is free software and protect ownership attempts to restrict these freedoms to users. There are several licenses
"sisters" of the GPL as the license GNU Free Documentation (GFDL), the Open Audio License, to musical works, etc., and other less restrictive, as mgpl, or LGPL (Lesser General License publish it before publish it License Library General ), which enable dynamic binding of free applications to non-free applications.
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