Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the open source definition in brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared. Ventajas y desventajas del software con licencia infomaniak. Various licenses and comments about them gnu project free. The free software legal and licensing workshop is held every year to allow legal experts to discuss issues and best practices surrounding free software licences. See our licensing recommendations, analysis, and faq. Linus torvalds says gpl v3 violates everything that gplv2 stood for duration. Drupal, and all contributed files that are derivative works of drupal hosted on, are licensed under the gnu general public license, version 2 or later. That means you are free to download, reuse, modify, and distribute any files hosted in s git repositories under the terms of either the gpl version 2 or version 3, and to run drupal in combination with any code with any license that is compatible with either versions 2 or 3, such as the affero general public license agpl version 3.
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The free software legal and licensing workshop fsfe legal. Brief comments on the gnu general public license v3. Software libre licenciamiento gnu ensayos vero vintimilla. Aug 23, 2016 linus torvalds says gpl v3 violates everything that gplv2 stood for duration. This license is sometimes referred to as the 3clause bsd license. That means you are free to download, reuse, modify, and distribute any files hosted in s git repositories under the terms of either the gpl version 2 or version 3, and to run drupal in. This event has become the worlds foremost gathering of lawyers, technologists and thought.
Contact the fsf compliance lab free software foundation. It is a lax, permissive noncopyleft free software license, compatible with the gnu gpl. If you think youve found a license violation, please follow our instructions and send a report. The free software legal and licensing workshop 2016 in 2016 legal network conference was held on the, 14 and 15 of april 2016, in barcelona, spain. But if not, whether youre writing some software or writing a news story, feel free to contact us. Debian debian free software guidelines licencia tipo mpl.
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