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: Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license? … Rather than modifying the GPL, please use the exception mechanism offered by GPL version 3. …

If your project has no GPL/copyleft dependencies (e.g., libraries written by other people licensed under the GPL), then you may do as you please: offer the source code under the GPL, and offer an unrelated … It so happens that your GPL source code compiles to a binary that somewhat resembles a binary you also offer. …

of a GPL-covered program, does the GPL give the thief the right to redistribute that version? … The GPL does not change that. …

They have already given you written permission concretely by attaching the terms of the GPL to their work. … the GPL. …

There is a related GPL FAQ item about GPL code processing non-GPL data: If a programming language interpreter is released under the GPL, does that mean programs written to be interpreted by it must be … under GPL-compatible licenses? …

The GPL FAQ clarifies that even a GPL programming-language interpreter can execute non-GPL code, because the external code is "just data" to the GPL program. … So surely merely displaying GPL code in a non-GPL viewer is similarly fine. …

First, note that the Q&A you link says the "GPL does not place any obligations on the user of" some software. … Second, you are free to reverse engineer a GPL-licensed binary, though if the distributor did things properly, you should also have the source available, so reverse engineering would get you the same or …

The GPL includes the following definition: The "source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. What's the preferred form for making modifications? …

The principle may be extended to cover reimplementing GPL'd software under a different license; however, an author who reimplements source-available software (as all GPL software is) must take care not … The fact that the new reimplemented component can be replaced by a GPL module is not a problem nor a revelation brought on by Google v. …

This has many philosophical, social, and practical problems: This could not be free or open software according to Debian's Free Software Guidelines since it fails the desert island test, i.e., it is …

For example, if you do not also make your work available under the GPL (or a GPL-compatible license) when you distribute it, and appropriately make your human-readable source code available, then distribution … of your code combined with Isotope would violate the GPL. …

When you distribute a work that includes components covered under the GPL, the GPL requires you to offer the source code to anyone who receives a copy of the binary program. … GPL requires in plain English at the time you give paid instruction. …

If this client is distributing someone else's GPL-licensed work (or a derivative) they are only permitted to do so under the GPL. Does your case qualify as distribution? … In this case, too, no GPL-covered code is being distributed under an NDA, or under any additional restrictions. The GPL would give the client the right to redistribute your version. …

Bob is free to offer his own contributions, under a more permissive, GPL-compatible license, but when he creates a compilation with any portion of someone else's GPL-licensed work, then the GPL-licensed … part must always remain under the GPL (and therefore the work as a whole must also be GPL licensed, though it may include more permissively-licensed GPL-compatible components). …

The number of sites that use a GPL-licensed theme is not limited by the GPL. Using a GPL-licensed theme on only one site is exactly as legal as using it on one hundred different sites. … Different versions of the GPL exist and the relevant version of the GPL will identified. You will need to make sure that you read and abide by the GPL terms. …