Linus Torvalds chose to use the General Public License (a.k.a. GPL, GPL agreement) for the distribution of Linux.
The Linux kernel and most of the free software components in a Linux "distribution" were created as part of the GNU project. And they are made available to everyone under the GNU General Public License, often referred to as the GPL.
The GPL is different from most other software licenses and radically different from
Linus Torvalds chose to use the General Public License (a.k.a. GPL, GPL agreement) for the distribution of Linux. (…)
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