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2. GNU Lesser General Public License - Wikipedia

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   The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own (even proprietary) software without being required by the terms of a strong copyleft license to release the source code of their own components.

3. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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   Private use - whether modification to the code must be shared with the community or may be used privately (e.g. internal use by a corporation) Sublicensing - whether modified code may be licensed under a different license (for example a copyright ) or must retain the same license under which it was provided

4. License compatibility - Wikipedia

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   License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for such a framework arises because the different licenses can contain contradictory requirements, rendering it impossible to legally combine source code from separately-licensed software in order to create and publish a new program.

5. GNU General Public License - Wikipedia

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   The version numbers diverged in 1999 when version 2.1 of the LGPL was released, which renamed it the GNU Lesser General Public License to reflect its place in the philosophy. The GPLv2 was also modified to refer to the new name of the LGPL, but its version number remained the same, resulting in the original GPLv2 not being recognised by the ...

6. BSD licenses - Wikipedia

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   BSD-1-Clause, a license with only the source code retaining clause, used by Berkeley Software Design in the 1990s, [23] [24] and later used by the Boost Software License. OSI approved since 2020. [25] BSD-2-Clause-Patent, a variation of BSD-2-Clause with a patent grant. OSI approved since 2017. [26]

7. GNU Affero General Public License - Wikipedia

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   Moglen and Kuhn wrote the text of the proposed new section 2(d), and provided it to Poole, who then requested and received permission from the FSF to publish a derivative of GPLv2 for this purpose. In March 2002, Affero, Inc. published the original Affero General Public License (AGPLv1) for use with the Affero project and made the new license ...