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2 unusual facts about GPL


Gpl-violations.org

While the Software Freedom Law Center, an organisation with similar goals operates from the USA, gpl-violations.org operates from Germany, Welte's home country.

In May, 2008, gpl-violations.org and the Free Software Foundation Europe Freedom Task Force announced that they were to deepen their previous cooperation.


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Binary blob

Prominent Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has stated that it is illegal to redistribute closed source modules for the GPL-licensed Linux kernel.

Bzip2

Probably useful for research and prototyping, made available under the BSD/GPL/LGPL, or any other DFSG-compatible license.

Caisis

It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is entirely web based; written mainly in C#, HTML, and JavaScript it runs on the .Net Framework.

Common Public License

CPL lacks compatibility with both versions of the GPL because it has a "choice of law" section in section 7, which restricts legal disputes to a certain court.

DaDaBIK

DaDaBIK is a commercial software (formerly GPL) written in PHP for quickly creating a CRUD (create, read, update, delete) database front-end or a simple database-driven application without coding.

Dave's own version of Citadel

Along with its offshoots DOC has inspired at least four clone codebases, including YAWC, which is likely the oldest, Jammin, which has since become WeIrDo, bbs100 (which is licensed under GPL), and A better Citadel (ABC).

Dimdim

Dimdim was made available primarily as an enterprise edition and as a Virtual Machine appliance, but an open source community edition has also been made available to developers under the GNU General Public License (GPL), giving them the option to install and host Dimdim in their own networks.

Formido

Formido (game), a video game released by MHGames under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)

Free Software Foundation

In late 2001, Bradley M. Kuhn (then Executive Director), with the assistance of Moglen, David Turner, and Peter T. Brown, formalized these efforts into FSF's GPL Compliance Labs.

Germanic Parent Language

Germanic Parent Language (GPL) is a term used in historical linguistics to describe the chain of reconstructed languages in the Germanic group referred to as Pre-Germanic Indo-European (PreGmc), Early Proto-Germanic (EPGmc), and Late Proto-Germanic (LPGmc).

Grand Prix Legends

GPLs lack of inbuilt support for 3D accelerator cards other than those produced by 3dfx and Rendition contributed to a decrease in sales when those cards became obsolete, since at the time there was no Direct3D support.

An out-of-the-box copy of GPL lacks several features that one might expect from a modern driving simulation, and so most people add as a matter of course several patches: the official version 1.2 patch that adds force feedback; a second patch to add Direct3D and/or OpenGL support; and a third patch that gets around a problem that prevents the original game from working on computers with CPUs faster than 1.4 GHz.

The French Grand Prix is raced at Rouen-Les-Essarts in GPL, even though the actual Grand Prix that year was held at the Le Mans Bugatti track.

IFolder

On March 22, 2004, after their purchase of the Linux software companies Ximian and SUSE, Novell announced that they were releasing iFolder as an open source project under the GPL license.

Iron Seed

As progress on the development of the successor and further patching of Ironseed was unlikely the source code of Ironseed 1 released by the developers to the public under the GPL in March 2013.

KMines

KMines is a minesweeper game for KDE, originally created in 1996 by Nicolas Hadacek under the GPL.

Netfilter

In August 2003 Harald Welte was made chairman of the coreteam, and in April 2004, following a crack-down by the project on those distributing the project's software embedded in routers without complying with the GPL, Welte was granted a historic injunction by a German court against Sitecom Germany, who refused to follow the GPL's terms (see GPL-related disputes).

Open Build Service

The Build Service software is published under the GPL.

Part-Time Scientists

"PresenTationS" is being developed and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Real Time Media Flow Protocol

RTMFP's underlying protocols are the result of Adobe's acquisition of Amicima in 2006; strong architectural similarities exist between RTMFP and Amicima's GPL-licensed Secure Media Flow Protocol (MFP).

Support Incident Tracker

Support Incident Tracker (commonly abbreviated to "SiT!") is an Open Source (GPL) web based application which uses PHP and MySQL for tracking technical support calls/emails.

Victor Shoup

His freely available (under the terms of the GNU GPL) C++ library of number theory algorithms, NTL, is widely used and well regarded for its high performance.

Webfmt

Webfmt, is a platform-independent web-based Ajax File Manager for website, released as open source software under the GPL, LGPL, MPL by Fbis source.


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