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<p>The GNU General Public License (GPL) is the paradigm for Copyleft licenses. It was developed by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation in the context of Free Open Source Software (FOSS). Here, as with OSH, the reference to ‘free’ is in terms of freedom and not cost.</p> | <p>The GNU General Public License (GPL) is the paradigm for Copyleft licenses. It was developed by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation in the context of Free Open Source Software (FOSS). Here, as with OSH, the reference to ‘free’ is in terms of freedom and not cost.</p> | ||
<p>The license agrees with, and established the four essential freedoms of FOSS:</p> | <p>The license agrees with, and established the four essential freedoms of FOSS:</p> | ||
− | + | <p>Freedom 0 – the freedom to use the work<br>Freedom 1 – the freedom to study the work<br>Freedom 2 – the freedom to copy and share the work with others<br>Freedom 3 – the freedom to modify the work, and the freedom to distribute modified and therefore derivative works</p> | |
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<p>As a software-specific license, the GNU GPL does not fall within the scope of our project. However, it is worth mentioning that many of the current OSH licenses were developed on the standards of the GPL and in an attempt to achieve what the GPL has in the context of hardware.</p> | <p>As a software-specific license, the GNU GPL does not fall within the scope of our project. However, it is worth mentioning that many of the current OSH licenses were developed on the standards of the GPL and in an attempt to achieve what the GPL has in the context of hardware.</p> | ||
<p>For more information about the GNU GPL, visit http://www.gnu.org/.</p> | <p>For more information about the GNU GPL, visit http://www.gnu.org/.</p> |
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