This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GPL. Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2, because it has some requirements that are not in the older version. These include certain patent termination and indemnification provisions.

Software which is free from any claims beyond W3C terms and conditions are compatible with the GPL and may be redistributed under the GPL. The GPL ensures users always have the ability to run, change, or redistribute software with or without changes; it also prevents such software from being bundled with closed/proprietary software such that users lose their rights to that free code in the new product.

The GPL permits anybody to modify and redistribute a GPL'ed library. This would create a confusing situation for all users, who would have to relate to many different, perhaps incompatible, versions of Qt (we put great emphasis on avoiding the sort of version problems Tcl/Tk has). Please also see the more elaborate explanation under the question "Why can't I distribute modified versions of Qt?" below. All free software developers using a GPL'ed Qt would have to release their software under GPL.

The 5.3.4 clause in the CeCILL licence states that it is the case. In the sense of compatibility that the FSF gives. For the version 2 of CeCILL we submitted the clause to the approval of the FSF and took into account their proposal for modifications.

Note that this does not necessarily prevent you from distributing your proprietary products based on CLISP. See Note in COPYRIGHT.

No. This license constitutes GPL V2.X and the upgrade should be GPL V3. It should be upwards compatible with GPL V3 and later, not backward compatible to GPL V2. It "should" be, provided that GPL V3 has a provision which protects software that is run over networks and has a download source facility built in.

GNU (GNU's Not Unix) is an on-going project by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the purpose of creating a complete, high performance and freely distributable Unix-like computing environment. It was begun by Richard Stallman, a leading advocate of free software, in the latter part of 1983. Most open source software is released under the GPL.

Koan worked a lot selecting and assembling all the best components of the free software world. When you purchase KaeilOS you get this work ready to use. KaeilOS sources are all GPL and you can find them somewhere in the net, you can learn how to assemble them, look for the single components and download them replicating our work. When you buy a copy of KaeilOS you are actually purchasing a 'ready-to-run' service and not only a simple CDROM. This is the reason why we are asking money for it.

Article L.131-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code requires among other things that the field of exploitation of the assigned rights be defined article L.

No, that applies to Kylix Open Edition. With Delphi 6 Personal, if you distribute your applications, you have to distribute them free of charge, but you are not forced to distribute the source code if you don't want to, although you cannot charge for it if you decide to distribute it.

Logtalk follows the Artistic License 2.0. The FSF describes this license as a GNU GPL compatible, non-copyleft, free software license.

No the store is not GPL-ed. Which means this service is closed, though the actual Juices which are created are still free software and licensed under the GPL. So you may distribute as many copies of your own Juice as you like. So if you are capable (and feeling particularly geeky, with a few weeks of spare time) you may copy our software, and create your own branded Juice.

Apache attempts to offer all the features and configuration options of NCSA httpd 1.3, as well as many of the additional features found in NCSA httpd 1.4 and NCSA httpd 1.5. NCSA httpd appears to be moving toward adding experimental features which are not generally required at the moment. Some of the experiments will succeed while others will inevitably be dropped. The Apache philosophy is to add what's needed as and when it is needed.

The LGPL is designed to "permit developers of non-free programs to use free libraries" (quote from the LGPL). In other words, if Qt were LGPL'd, companies would not have to buy the Professional Edition in order to make commercial (non-free) software, they could just use the Free Edition, free of charge. That would mean Troll Tech would not get the revenue necessary for improving and extending Qt.

The GNU General Public License (or GPL) was developed by the Free Software Foundation. Unlike the BSD License, it maintains free source code by a fairly complex set of rules. It requires that any "derivative works" based on software covered by the GPL also be covered by the GPL, and that source code to these works be made publicly available. This means than any development that anyone does that is derived from GPLed code must also be made free.

The free software included in Sharif Linux comes under many different free software and open source licenses. The most common of these licenses are the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). But like every other GNU/Linux distribution, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Core, SuSE, Mandriva, Ubuntu, and Debian, Sharif Linux also includes software in several other licenses.

The GNU GPL is a copyright license, limiting the ways in which you may copy the Mibble software. It does not directly affect the usage of the software, but in limiting your ability of making copies it may do so in an indirect way. In essence, the GNU GPL imposes a number of conditions that must be fulfilled in order to distribute Mibble: All modifications of Mibble must be distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL (if at all distributed to third parties).

When you speak of free software, you are referring to freedom, not price. The General Public License is designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish) and that you receive source code althought it has a price.

The "one additional feature" - Section 2(d) reads as follows: " If the Program as you received it is intended to interact with users through a computer network and if, in the version you received, any user interacting with the Program was given the opportunity to request transmission to that user of the Program's complete source code, you must not remove that facility from your modified version of the Program or work based on the Program, and must offer an equivalent opportunity for all users in.

The LGPL is designed to "permit developers of non-free programs to use free libraries" (quote from the LGPL). In other words, if Qt Open Source Edition were LGPL'd, companies would not have to purchase our commercial editions in order to make commercial/proprietary software, they could just use the Open Source Edition, free of charge. That would mean Trolltech would not get the revenue necessary for improving and extending Qt.

runs on Windows NT/9x, Netware 5.x and above, OS/2, and most versions of Unix, as well as several other operating systems DBM databases for authentication allows you to easily set up password-protected pages with enormous numbers of authorized users, without bogging down the server. Customized responses to errors and problems Allows you to set up files, or even CGI scripts, which are returned by the server in response to errors and problems, e.g.

The GPL license ensures that the GPL license must also be used for all derived work, maybe for software you build on top of the toolkit. That means that the initial authors get the the same access to software that is written by other people using their work. For the initial author, this looked like a fair enough deal to publish software. This project would surely not profit of a less restrictive license. If you see benefits, you might start a discussion about this issue.

Definitely not! This is a frequent misunderstanding of GPL. The General Public License is designed to make sure that you receive source code althought it has a price. When you purchase KaeilOS you get *all* the sources. Please consider that we are offering a service into KaeilOS CDROM.

The GNU GPL demands that as soon as you distribute GPL licensed software in executable format you make available the "complete corresponding source code". The GNU GPL also contains a definition of this term: ??? The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.

CLISP is Free Software, covered by the GNU GPL, with special terms governing the distribution of applications that run in CLISP. The precise terms can be found in the COPYRIGHT file contained in the source and binary distributions of CLISP. Here is an informal clarification of what these terms mean in practice. Please refer to the said COPYRIGHT file when in doubt. In many cases, CLISP does not force an application to be covered by the GNU GPL.

Because of a necessary change to the NewsArts.pdb data structure, for now, no. However at some point in the near future, we will submit a code change to GPL Yanoff so that it can understand both versions of the articles and then backwards compatibility will be restored. Of course, there are many new things that New Yanoff does that GPL Yanoff doesn't know about and therefore can't understand (e.g. killfiles).