licences that support freedom
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Licences that support freedom
Four Freedoms
Use
Study
Share
Improve
Provided by licences
What users can do
What subsequent users can do
The important thing
Understand the reasoningbehind the licence
The GNU GPL
You can use, study, share and improve thiscode as long as others now and in the
future also have these freedoms.
(the legal text is longer)
Examples of licences
Modified BSDGNU LGPLGNU GPLApache
MPLAffero GPL
Copyleft
Freedom maintained in modified orimproved versions of the software
Common issues
People don't read the licences
People don't follow the licence terms
Avoiding issues
Read the licences
Follow the licence terms
Long-term maintenance
Assignment can reduce fragmentation
Freedom Task Force
Training
Consultancy
Legal infrastructure
Contact details
www.fsfeurope.org/ftf
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