enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. GNU Lesser General Public License - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public...

   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. License compatibility - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility

   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.

4. Open-source license - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license

   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. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and...

   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

6. GNU General Public License - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

   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. Business models for open-source software - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open...

   Open-source software can also be commercialized from selling services, such as training, technical support, or consulting, rather than the software itself. [5] [6]Another possibility is offering open-source software in source code form only, while providing executable binaries to paying customers only, offering the commercial service of compiling and packaging of the software.