Es muy similar en efectos a la licencia MIT.
La licencia tiene la siguiente forma:
/*-
* Copyright (c)
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* 3. Neither the name of copyright holders nor the names of its
* contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
* from this software without specific prior written permission.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
* ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
* TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
* PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS
* BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
* CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
* SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
* INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
* CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
* ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
* POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
*/
GNU General Public License
La Licencia Pública General de GNU o más conocida por su nombre en inglés GNU General Public License o simplemente su acrónimo del inglés GNU GPL, es una licencia creada por la Free Software Foundation a mediados de los 80, y está orientada principalmente a proteger la libre distribución, modificación y uso de software. Su propósito es declarar que el software cubierto por esta licencia es software libre y protegerlo de intentos de apropiación que restrinjan esas libertades a los usuarios.
Existen varias licencias "hermanas" de la GPL, como la licencia de documentación libre de GNU (GFDL) que cubre los artículos de la Wikipedia, la Open Audio License, para trabajos musicales, etcétera, y otras menos restrictivas, como la MGPL, o la LGPL (Lesser General Public License, antes Library General Public License), que permiten el enlace dinámico de aplicaciones libres a aplicaciones no libres.

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