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The [[GPL]] and [[LGPL]] more or less completely define the free software movement. While there are other licenses, such as the [[peace license]] used by [[WarFTP]] in its early releases, these have not typically survived long. | The [[GPL]] and [[LGPL]] more or less completely define the free software movement. While there are other licenses, such as the [[peace license]] used by [[WarFTP]] in its early releases, these have not typically survived long. | ||
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Revision as of 07:04, 10 October 2006
A Free Software source code license meets both open source and share alike constraints. Unlike generic open source, improvement without sharing is impossible. While share-alike such as Creative Commons allows restrictions on the sharing such as "no commercial use" or no derivative works, free software doesn't. In part this is because of the nature of software to be continually improved and the fact that it doesn't necessarily lose the powers or integrity that older versions have because new ones have been added. One can add functions to software that are invisible to users of the old functions, unlike for instance a book or a political platform.
The GPL and LGPL more or less completely define the free software movement. While there are other licenses, such as the peace license used by WarFTP in its early releases, these have not typically survived long.
While it is technically a form of license, its requirements are so specific that it has spawned the sourceforge and open outsourcing models of development (and some say the opentroll method), thus it qualifies as a "methodology", at least the core of one.
