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The [http:// | The [http://sideeffectsadderall.org/ '''GNU General Public License'''] ('''GNU GPL''' or simply '''GPL''') is a widely used free software licence, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft licence that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft. Under this philosophy, the GPL is said to grant the recipients of a computer program the rights of the free software definition and uses copyleft to ensure the freedoms are preserved, even when the work is changed or added to. This is in distinction to permissive free software licences, of which the BSD licences are the standard examples. | ||
The GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) is a modified, more permissive, version of the GPL, originally intended for some software libraries. There is also a GNU Free Documentation Licence, which was originally intended for use with documentation for GNU software, but has also been adopted for other uses, such as the Wikipedia project. | The GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) is a modified, more permissive, version of the GPL, originally intended for some software libraries. There is also a GNU Free Documentation Licence, which was originally intended for use with documentation for GNU software, but has also been adopted for other uses, such as the Wikipedia project. | ||