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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. 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 ...

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. 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 ...

7. Comparison of TLS implementations - Wikipedia

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   Apache License 2.0, GNU GPLv2+ and commercial license Amazon.com, Inc. C: Continuous US Schannel: Microsoft: No Proprietary: Microsoft Corporation Windows 11, 2021-10-05 US Secure Transport: Apple Inc. Yes APSL 2.0: Apple Inc. 57337.20.44 (OS X 10.11.2), 2015-12-08 US wolfSSL (previously CyaSSL) wolfSSL [24] Yes GNU GPLv2+ and commercial ...

8. Free software - Wikipedia

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   The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) The Mozilla Public License (MPL) The Eclipse Public License; The Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative both publish lists of licenses that they find to comply with their own definitions of free software and open-source software respectively: List of FSF approved software licenses

9. Free-software license - Wikipedia

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   In the mid-1980s, the GNU project produced copyleft free-software licenses for each of its software packages. An early such license (the "GNU Emacs Copying Permission Notice") was used for GNU Emacs in 1985, [5] which was revised into the "GNU Emacs General Public License" in late 1985, and clarified in March 1987 and February 1988.