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Top 20 licenses. Black Duck Software. 2015-11-19 [2015-11-19]. （原始内容存档于2016-07-19）. 1. MIT license 24%, 2. GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 23%, 3. Apache License 16%, 4. GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0 9%, 5. BSD License 2.0 (3-clause, New or Revised) License 6%, 6. GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1 5%, 7. Artistic License (Perl) 4%, 8. GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.0 2%, 9. Microsoft Public License 2%, 10. Eclipse Public License (EPL) 2%
Top 20 licenses. Black Duck Software. 2013-08-23 [2013-08-23]. （原始内容存档于2016-07-19）. 1. GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 33%, 2. Apache License 13%, 3. GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0 12%

cnet.com

GPLv3 hits 50 percent adoption. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-22）.

creativecommons.org

Creative Commons—GNU General Public License. [2010-07-20]. （原始内容存档于2010-09-25）.
GNU通用公共授權條款. [2010-07-20]. （原始内容存档于2010-09-10）.

debian.org

Debian – License information. Software in the Public Interest, Inc. [2009-12-10]. （原始内容存档于2016-04-22）.

drupal.org

Licensing FAQ. Drupal.org. [2011-01-15]. （原始内容存档于2015-09-05）.

dwheeler.com

Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else.. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-26）.
Estimating Linux's Size. www.dwheeler.com. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-25）.
Why the GPL rocketed Linux to success. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2013-06-25）. So while the BSDs have lost energy every time a company gets involved, the GPL'ed programs gain every time a company gets involved.

free-soft.org

The History of the GPL. [2011-11-24]. （原始内容存档于2020-11-11）.

freesoftwaremagazine.com

Interview with Richard Stallman （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Free Software Magazine, 23 January 2008.

fsf.org

gplv3.fsf.org

Why Upgrade to GPL Version 3 --GPLv3. Fsf.org. [2011-03-17]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-03）.
gplv3.fsf.org comments for discussion draft 4. [2012-11-23]. （原始内容存档于2008-10-02）.
gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 1. [2012-11-23]. （原始内容存档于2008-06-26）. Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-1' ... found 962
gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 2. [2012-11-23]. （原始内容存档于2008-07-24）. Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-1' ... found 727
gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 3. [2012-11-23]. （原始内容存档于2008-07-03）. Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-3' ... found 649
gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 4. [2012-11-23]. （原始内容存档于2008-10-02）. Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-4' ... found 298
Guide to the third draft of GPLv3. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2017-06-05）.
Final Discussion Draft. [2007-06-04]. （原始内容存档于2018-03-05）.
GPL version 3 FAQ. [2007-06-04]. （原始内容存档于2017-09-17）.
Fourth Discussion Draft Rationale (PDF). [2007-06-04]. （原始内容 (PDF)存档于2017-03-01）.

fsf.org

Licenses – Free Software Foundation. Free Software Foundation. [2009-12-10]. （原始内容存档于2008-12-16）.
Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism – Free Software Foundation. Free Software Foundation. [2009-12-10]. （原始内容存档于2009-07-01）.
FSF releases the GNU General Public License, version 3 – Free Software Foundation – working together for free software. Fsf.org. [2011-01-15]. （原始内容存档于2013-06-25）.
List of free-software licences on the FSF website （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: “We recommend that developers consider using the GNU AGPL for any software which will commonly be run over a network”.
GPL FAQ: Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license?. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2010-02-03）.
gnu.org. www.fsf.org. [2006-04-27]. （原始内容存档于2008-09-08）.

fsfeurope.org

Stallman, Richard. Presentation at the second international GPLv3 conference, held in Porto Alegre. 2006-04-21 [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2009-03-31）.
GPLv3: Drafting version 3 of the GNU General Public License. Free Software Foundation Europe. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2009-04-13）.
Eben Moglen explaining why the GPL is a license and why it matters. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2008-11-20）.

fsffrance.org

paris-16.09 .2009.pdf 判決書（法文）. ^{[永久失效連結]}

galegroup.com

ic.galegroup.com

Ball, Patrick. Holbrook, J. , 编. Free Software. Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA). 2015, 2 (2): 291–295 [2016-11-26]. （原始内容存档于2019-10-16）. Thus free software may be used and shared by anyone who accepts the terms of the license. The most common free software license is the general public license (GPL). A GPL offers the following:

github.com

GNU Emacs Copying Permission Notice (1985). [2015-11-08]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-22）.

gnu.org

一个反例是 GPL'ed GNU Bison: the parsers it outputs do contain parts of itself and are therefore derivatives, which would fall under the GPL if not for a special exception granted by GNU Bison: Conditions for Using Bison. [2008-12-11]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-22）. </ref>
If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL). Free Software Foundation. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2016-12-29）.
GPL FAQ: Does using the GPL for a program make it GNU Software? （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
GNU 工程的哲学. [2019-04-16]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-12）.
GPL第三版 GNU General Public License. [2012-06-15]. （原始内容存档于2017-07-29）.
A Quick Guide to GPLv3 – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF). Free Software Foundation. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2016-12-29）.
Why did you decide to write the GNU Affero GPLv3 as a separate license? （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） on gnu.org
A Quick Guide to GPLv3 – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF). Free Software Foundation. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2016-12-29）.
Selling Free Software. Free Software Foundation. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2018-02-07）.
GPL FAQ: Use GPL Tools to develop non-free programs （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
GPL FAQ: GPL require source posted to public （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Unreleased modifications （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Internal Distribution （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
GPL FAQ: Port program to GNU/Linux （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
Essay by Stallman explaining why a license is more suitable than a contract. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2020-11-12）.
Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF). Gnu.org. [2011-01-15]. （原始内容存档于2016-12-29）.

groklaw.net

ENTRY GRANTING REASSERTED MOTION TO DISMISS (PDF). [2006-04-27]. （原始内容 (PDF)存档于2020-01-16）.

huaweicloud.com

开源的许可证GPL、LGPL、BSD、Apache 2.0的通俗解释. [2021-08-30]. （原始内容存档于2021-08-30）.

ifso.ie

Stallman, Richard. Presentation in Brussels, Belgium—the first day of that year's FOSDEM conference.. 2006-02-25 [2006-04-27]. （原始内容存档于2017-08-25）.

internetnews.com

Kerner, Sean Michael. Torvalds Still Keen On GPLv2. internetnews.com. 2008-01-08 [2015-02-12]. （原始内容存档于2015-02-12）. "In some ways, Linux was the project that really made the split clear between what the FSF is pushing which is very different from what open source and Linux has always been about, which is more of a technical superiority instead of a -- this religious belief in freedom," Torvalds told Zemlin. So, the GPL Version 3 reflects the FSF's goals and the GPL Version 2 pretty closely matches what I think a license should do and so right now, Version 2 is where the kernel is."

iu.edu

lkml.iu.edu

Linus Torvalds. Linux-2.4.0-test8. lkml.iu.edu. 2000-09-08 [2015-11-21]. （原始内容存档于2020-05-15）. The only one of any note that I'd like to point out directly is the clarification in the COPYING file, making it clear that it's only _that_particular version of the GPL that is valid for the kernel. This should not come as any surprise, as that's the same license that has been there since 0.12 or so, but I thought I'd make that explicit

kernel.org

git.kernel.org

Torvalds, Linus. COPYING. kernel.org. [2013-08-13]. （原始内容存档于2015-12-17）. Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
存档副本. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2017-08-25）.

landley.net

Landley, Rob. CELF 2013 Toybox talk. landley.net. [2013-08-21]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-07）. GPLv3 broke "the" GPL into incompatible forks that can't share code. ... FSF expected universal compliance, but hijacked lifeboat clause when boat wasn't sinking. ...

linux.cn

《自由软件，自由社会》：什么是自由软件？. [2018-05-20]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-22）.

linuxjournal.com

Petreley, Nicholas. A fight against evil or a fight for attention?. linuxjournal.com. 2006-09-27 [2015-03-11]. （原始内容存档于2018-03-02）. Second, the war between Linus Torvalds and other Kernel developers and the Free Software Foundation over GPLv3 is continuing, with Torvalds saying he's fed up with the FSF.

lwn.net

存档副本. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2020-10-08）. License proliferation: a naive quantitative analysis] on lwn.net "Walter van Holst is a legal consultant at the Dutch IT consulting company mitopics. ... Walter instead chose to use data from a software index, namely Freecode ... Walter's 2009 data set consisted of 38,674 projects ... The final column in the table shows the number of projects licensed under "any version of the GPL". In addition, Walter presented pie charts that showed the proportion of projects under various common licenses. Notable in those data sets was that, whereas in 2009 the proportion of projects licensed GPLv2-only and GPLv3 was respectively 3% and 2%, by 2013, those numbers had risen to 7% and 5%."
James E.J. Bottomley; Mauro Carvalho Chehab; Thomas Gleixner; Christoph Hellwig; Dave Jones; Greg Kroah-Hartman; Tony Luck; Andrew Morton; Trond Myklebust; David Woodhouse. Kernel developers' position on GPLv3 - The Dangers and Problems with GPLv3. LWN.net. 2006-09-15 [2015-03-11]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-18）. The current version (Discussion Draft 2) of GPLv3 on first reading fails the necessity test of section 1 on the grounds that there's no substantial and identified problem with GPLv2 that it is trying to solve. However, a deeper reading reveals several other problems with the current FSF draft: 5.1 DRM Clauses ... 5.2 Additional Restrictions Clause ... 5.3 Patents Provisions ... since the FSF is proposing to shift all of its projects to GPLv3 and apply pressure to every other GPL licensed project to move, we foresee the release of GPLv3 portends the Balkanisation of the entire Open Source Universe upon which we rely.
Reasoning behind the "preferred form" language in the GPL. LWN.net. 2011-03-07 [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2013-12-02）.

opensource.org

Licenses by Name. Open Source Initiative. [2009-12-10]. （原始内容存档于2016-06-06）.
Tiemann, Michael. GNU Affero GPL version 3 and the "ASP loophole". OSI. 2007-06-07 [2013-08-19]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-14）.

oreilly.com

radar.oreilly.com

Allison Randal. GPLv3, Clarity and Simplicity. 2007-05-14 [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2008-10-15）.

solidot.org

opensource.solidot.org

GNU GPL在法國勝訴. 2009-09-25 [2009-09-25]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-07）（中文（中国大陆））.

ssrn.com

Guadamuz-Gonzalez, Andres. Viral contracts or unenforceable documents? Contractual validity of copyleft licenses. European Intellectual Property Review. 2004, 26 (8): 331–339. SSRN 569101 .

techlawforum.net

GPL 3 Overview. Tech LawForum. 2007-06-29 [2013-09-02]. （原始内容存档于2016-01-09）.

web.archive.org

一个反例是 GPL'ed GNU Bison: the parsers it outputs do contain parts of itself and are therefore derivatives, which would fall under the GPL if not for a special exception granted by GNU Bison: Conditions for Using Bison. [2008-12-11]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-22）. </ref>
Debian – License information. Software in the Public Interest, Inc. [2009-12-10]. （原始内容存档于2016-04-22）.
Licenses – Free Software Foundation. Free Software Foundation. [2009-12-10]. （原始内容存档于2008-12-16）.
Licenses by Name. Open Source Initiative. [2009-12-10]. （原始内容存档于2016-06-06）.
Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism – Free Software Foundation. Free Software Foundation. [2009-12-10]. （原始内容存档于2009-07-01）.
If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL). Free Software Foundation. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2016-12-29）.
Top 20 licenses. Black Duck Software. 2015-11-19 [2015-11-19]. （原始内容存档于2016-07-19）. 1. MIT license 24%, 2. GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 23%, 3. Apache License 16%, 4. GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0 9%, 5. BSD License 2.0 (3-clause, New or Revised) License 6%, 6. GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1 5%, 7. Artistic License (Perl) 4%, 8. GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.0 2%, 9. Microsoft Public License 2%, 10. Eclipse Public License (EPL) 2%
GPL FAQ: Does using the GPL for a program make it GNU Software? （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
开源的许可证GPL、LGPL、BSD、Apache 2.0的通俗解释. [2021-08-30]. （原始内容存档于2021-08-30）.
Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else.. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-26）.
Estimating Linux's Size. www.dwheeler.com. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-25）.
GPLv3 hits 50 percent adoption. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-22）.
存档副本. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2020-10-08）. License proliferation: a naive quantitative analysis] on lwn.net "Walter van Holst is a legal consultant at the Dutch IT consulting company mitopics. ... Walter instead chose to use data from a software index, namely Freecode ... Walter's 2009 data set consisted of 38,674 projects ... The final column in the table shows the number of projects licensed under "any version of the GPL". In addition, Walter presented pie charts that showed the proportion of projects under various common licenses. Notable in those data sets was that, whereas in 2009 the proportion of projects licensed GPLv2-only and GPLv3 was respectively 3% and 2%, by 2013, those numbers had risen to 7% and 5%."
Top 20 licenses. Black Duck Software. 2013-08-23 [2013-08-23]. （原始内容存档于2016-07-19）. 1. GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 33%, 2. Apache License 13%, 3. GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0 12%
Torvalds, Linus. COPYING. kernel.org. [2013-08-13]. （原始内容存档于2015-12-17）. Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
Linus Torvalds. Linux-2.4.0-test8. lkml.iu.edu. 2000-09-08 [2015-11-21]. （原始内容存档于2020-05-15）. The only one of any note that I'd like to point out directly is the clarification in the COPYING file, making it clear that it's only _that_particular version of the GPL that is valid for the kernel. This should not come as any surprise, as that's the same license that has been there since 0.12 or so, but I thought I'd make that explicit
《自由软件，自由社会》：什么是自由软件？. [2018-05-20]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-22）.
Ball, Patrick. Holbrook, J. , 编. Free Software. Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA). 2015, 2 (2): 291–295 [2016-11-26]. （原始内容存档于2019-10-16）. Thus free software may be used and shared by anyone who accepts the terms of the license. The most common free software license is the general public license (GPL). A GPL offers the following:
GNU Emacs Copying Permission Notice (1985). [2015-11-08]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-22）.
The History of the GPL. [2011-11-24]. （原始内容存档于2020-11-11）.
Stallman, Richard. Presentation at the second international GPLv3 conference, held in Porto Alegre. 2006-04-21 [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2009-03-31）.
Why Upgrade to GPL Version 3 --GPLv3. Fsf.org. [2011-03-17]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-03）.
GNU 工程的哲学. [2019-04-16]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-12）.
Creative Commons—GNU General Public License. [2010-07-20]. （原始内容存档于2010-09-25）.
GNU通用公共授權條款. [2010-07-20]. （原始内容存档于2010-09-10）.
Stallman, Richard. Presentation in Brussels, Belgium—the first day of that year's FOSDEM conference.. 2006-02-25 [2006-04-27]. （原始内容存档于2017-08-25）.
GPL第三版 GNU General Public License. [2012-06-15]. （原始内容存档于2017-07-29）.
Interview with Richard Stallman （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Free Software Magazine, 23 January 2008.
A Quick Guide to GPLv3 – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF). Free Software Foundation. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2016-12-29）.
GPLv3: Drafting version 3 of the GNU General Public License. Free Software Foundation Europe. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2009-04-13）.
gplv3.fsf.org comments for discussion draft 4. [2012-11-23]. （原始内容存档于2008-10-02）.
gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 1. [2012-11-23]. （原始内容存档于2008-06-26）. Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-1' ... found 962
gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 2. [2012-11-23]. （原始内容存档于2008-07-24）. Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-1' ... found 727
gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 3. [2012-11-23]. （原始内容存档于2008-07-03）. Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-3' ... found 649
gplv3.fsf.org comments for draft 4. [2012-11-23]. （原始内容存档于2008-10-02）. Showing comments in file 'gplv3-draft-4' ... found 298
Guide to the third draft of GPLv3. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2017-06-05）.
Final Discussion Draft. [2007-06-04]. （原始内容存档于2018-03-05）.
GPL version 3 FAQ. [2007-06-04]. （原始内容存档于2017-09-17）.
Fourth Discussion Draft Rationale (PDF). [2007-06-04]. （原始内容 (PDF)存档于2017-03-01）.
Tiemann, Michael. GNU Affero GPL version 3 and the "ASP loophole". OSI. 2007-06-07 [2013-08-19]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-14）.
List of free-software licences on the FSF website （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: “We recommend that developers consider using the GNU AGPL for any software which will commonly be run over a network”.
Why did you decide to write the GNU Affero GPLv3 as a separate license? （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） on gnu.org
James E.J. Bottomley; Mauro Carvalho Chehab; Thomas Gleixner; Christoph Hellwig; Dave Jones; Greg Kroah-Hartman; Tony Luck; Andrew Morton; Trond Myklebust; David Woodhouse. Kernel developers' position on GPLv3 - The Dangers and Problems with GPLv3. LWN.net. 2006-09-15 [2015-03-11]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-18）. The current version (Discussion Draft 2) of GPLv3 on first reading fails the necessity test of section 1 on the grounds that there's no substantial and identified problem with GPLv2 that it is trying to solve. However, a deeper reading reveals several other problems with the current FSF draft: 5.1 DRM Clauses ... 5.2 Additional Restrictions Clause ... 5.3 Patents Provisions ... since the FSF is proposing to shift all of its projects to GPLv3 and apply pressure to every other GPL licensed project to move, we foresee the release of GPLv3 portends the Balkanisation of the entire Open Source Universe upon which we rely.
Petreley, Nicholas. A fight against evil or a fight for attention?. linuxjournal.com. 2006-09-27 [2015-03-11]. （原始内容存档于2018-03-02）. Second, the war between Linus Torvalds and other Kernel developers and the Free Software Foundation over GPLv3 is continuing, with Torvalds saying he's fed up with the FSF.
Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） Debconf 2014, Portland, Oregon (accessed 11 March 2015)
Kerner, Sean Michael. Torvalds Still Keen On GPLv2. internetnews.com. 2008-01-08 [2015-02-12]. （原始内容存档于2015-02-12）. "In some ways, Linux was the project that really made the split clear between what the FSF is pushing which is very different from what open source and Linux has always been about, which is more of a technical superiority instead of a -- this religious belief in freedom," Torvalds told Zemlin. So, the GPL Version 3 reflects the FSF's goals and the GPL Version 2 pretty closely matches what I think a license should do and so right now, Version 2 is where the kernel is."
GPL 3 Overview. Tech LawForum. 2007-06-29 [2013-09-02]. （原始内容存档于2016-01-09）.
A Quick Guide to GPLv3 – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF). Free Software Foundation. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2016-12-29）.
Landley, Rob. Embedded Linux Conference 2013 - Toybox: Writing a New Command Line. The Linux Foundation. [2016-06-24]. （原始内容 (video)存档于2020-08-16）. GPLv3 broke "the" GPL into incompatible forks that can't share code. ... FSF expected universal compliance, but hijacked lifeboat clause when boat wasn't sinking. ...
Landley, Rob. CELF 2013 Toybox talk. landley.net. [2013-08-21]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-07）. GPLv3 broke "the" GPL into incompatible forks that can't share code. ... FSF expected universal compliance, but hijacked lifeboat clause when boat wasn't sinking. ...
存档副本. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2017-08-25）.
Selling Free Software. Free Software Foundation. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2018-02-07）.
GPL FAQ: Use GPL Tools to develop non-free programs （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
GPL FAQ: GPL require source posted to public （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Unreleased modifications （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, Internal Distribution （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
GPL FAQ: Port program to GNU/Linux （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
Reasoning behind the "preferred form" language in the GPL. LWN.net. 2011-03-07 [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2013-12-02）.
Essay by Stallman explaining why a license is more suitable than a contract. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2020-11-12）.
Eben Moglen explaining why the GPL is a license and why it matters. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2008-11-20）.
Allison Randal. GPLv3, Clarity and Simplicity. 2007-05-14 [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2008-10-15）.
GPL FAQ: Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license?. [2017-05-03]. （原始内容存档于2010-02-03）.
Why They’re Wrong: WordPress Plugins Shouldn’t Have to be GPL. Webmaster-source.com. 2009-01-29 [2011-01-15]. （原始内容存档于2020-09-15）.
Licensing FAQ. Drupal.org. [2011-01-15]. （原始内容存档于2015-09-05）.
Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF). Gnu.org. [2011-01-15]. （原始内容存档于2016-12-29）.
GNU GPL在法國勝訴. 2009-09-25 [2009-09-25]. （原始内容存档于2020-08-07）（中文（中国大陆））.
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