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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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   Network usage is not considered private use [28] Copylefted [27] Yes [28] GNU General Public License: Free Software Foundation: 3.0: June 2007: GPLv3 compatible only [29] [30] Copylefted [27] Copylefted [27] Yes [31] Yes [31] Copylefted [27] Yes [31] GNU Lesser General Public License: Free Software Foundation: 3.0: June 2007: With restrictions ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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.

6. Open-source license - Wikipedia

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   The GPL remains the most popular license of this type, but there are other significant examples. The FSF has crafted the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for libraries. Mozilla uses the Mozilla Public License (MPL) for their releases, including Firefox. IBM drafted the Common Public License (CPL) and later adopted the Eclipse Public License ...

7. GPL linking exception - Wikipedia

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   While version 2.1 of the LGPL was a standalone licence, the current LGPL version 3 is based on a reference to the GPL.. Compared to the GNU Classpath license above, the LGPL formulates more requirements to the linking exception: licensees must allow modification of the portions of the library they use and reverse engineering (of their software and the library) for debugging such modifications.

8. Apache License - Wikipedia

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   The Apache Software Foundation and the Free Software Foundation agree that the Apache License 2.0 is a free software license, compatible with the GNU General Public License [5] (GPL) version 3, [2] meaning that code under GPLv3 and Apache License 2.0 can be combined, as long as the resulting software is licensed under the GPLv3.

9. Permissive software license - Wikipedia

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   The Open Source Initiative defines a permissive software license as a "non-copyleft license that guarantees the freedoms to use, modify and redistribute". [6] GitHub's choosealicense website describes the permissive MIT license as "[letting] people do anything they want with your code as long as they provide attribution back to you and don't hold you liable."