GeneralPublicLicense.com
We are very happy to have bought GeneralPublicLicense.com this week. I think it will make a for a great information and news resource site for the ever changing legal landscape of Open Source licensing.
As you can see from the Wikipedia article;
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. It is the license used by the Linux kernel. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license 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 licenses are the standard examples.
The General Public License is a complex topic and with over 50 million results in Google a very popular one! There are a lot of very interesting factors and discussions around the GPL because it effects so much online and computer material. New derivatives such as Creative Commons will also be an interesting area to cover.
Update: we also picked up GnuSoftwareLicense.com recently which makes a nice addition to this package!
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