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== LGPL: the GNU Lesser General Public License==
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The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a Free software license, allowing you to use the software / document / art work without any licensing fees.
  
LGPL is an open license, allowing you to use the software / document / art work without any licensing fees.
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You may redistribute the product as long as you provide the license text (or a link to the license text) with the software package - and you may modify it as long as it stays under this license in your work.
 
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You may redistribute the prduct as long as you provide the license text (or a link to the license text) with the software package - and you may modify it as long as it stays under this license in your work.
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In contrary to [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GPL] it is possible to combine the product with closed source licensed parts (like libraries).
 
In contrary to [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GPL] it is possible to combine the product with closed source licensed parts (like libraries).
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LGPL is now the only license of [[OpenOffice.org]] - before version 2.0 in combination with Sun's [http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sissl_license.html SISSL].
 
LGPL is now the only license of [[OpenOffice.org]] - before version 2.0 in combination with Sun's [http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sissl_license.html SISSL].
  
''I wrote this from memory - so don't nail me down on it.''
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html Official LGPL page]
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* [[Wikipedia: GNU Lesser General Public License]]
  
Please read the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html official LGPL page].
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Latest revision as of 18:04, 8 March 2010

The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a Free software license, allowing you to use the software / document / art work without any licensing fees.

You may redistribute the product as long as you provide the license text (or a link to the license text) with the software package - and you may modify it as long as it stays under this license in your work.

In contrary to GPL it is possible to combine the product with closed source licensed parts (like libraries).

LGPL is now the only license of OpenOffice.org - before version 2.0 in combination with Sun's SISSL.

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