Open source software flexes its muscles

Posted by tadelste on Feb 17, 2006 1:40 AM EDT
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It is hard to imagine that a legal agreement can change an industry fundamentally. However, it is only a small exaggeration to say that the GNU Project’s General Public Licence (GPL) has reshaped the way that software is developed and sold. Seventeen years ago, the GPL helped launch the free software movement’s attack on proprietary software by using copyright law to make computer programs freely available to the general public.

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