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| | | | | While intellectual property generally sits on a spectrum of usage (e.g., free to consume but not distribute, free to distribute if it's also free), software also has its own complexities regarding free use of its code. The broad term for the entire domain was FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), but has more particularly used [...]Read More... from FLOSS Software: How Do You Give Away Software? | |
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| | | | | Copyleft is the ability of a contributor or distributor to add restrictions to a work. While most open source software allows you to use and modify the code as you want, open source software incorporating copyleft provisions prevent a contributor from making the future software proprietary. Copyleft is a general method for making a program... | |
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| | | The GNU General Public License started life as the GNU Emacs Public License in 1987 (the linked version is from February 1988), and has been built on the principle of copyleft: the use of the copyright system to enforce software freedom through licensing. This prototype version of the GPL was used for other packages, such as GNU Bison (in 1988), and Nethack (in 1989), and was most likely written by Richard Stallman himself. | ||