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GNU General Public Licence & Open Source

The GNU General Public License
The text of the GPL.

Frequently asked questions about GNU GPL
The Gnu GPL FAQ page.

Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program...

Arguments in favour of using Open Source can be found in their advocacy page.

Comparing Commercial and Open Source licenses
A discussion of the licence varieties: GPL, commercial and BSD

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Essays

The Cathedral and the Bazaar
A classic essay on Linux and Open Source development.

Cryptonomicon
A fascinating tour of Operating System history and hacker culture by author Neal Stephensen.

Usability and Open Source Software
In the course of analyzing the user-friendliness or lack thereof of Open Source Software, this article provides descriptions of the Open Source development community and its participants' motivations.

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Voluntary Subscriber Listing

La'o Hamutuk www.etan.org/lh.

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