There’s No Such Thing as a Free (Software) Lunch
2004; Association for Computing Machinery; Volume: 2; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1145/1005062.1005066
ISSN1542-7749
Autores Tópico(s)FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
ResumoThe licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software to make sure the software is free for all its users. So begins the GNU General Public License, or GPL, which has become the most widely used of open source software licenses. Freedom is the watchword; it’s no coincidence that the organization that wrote the GPL is called the Free Software Foundation and that open source developers everywhere proclaim, “Information wants to be free.”
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