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What is GPL software license ? How is it different from LGPL software license ?

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General Public Licence (GPL) grants and guarantees a wide range of rights to developers who work on open-source projects. With GPL, users can do the following:

  1. Copy the software as many times as needed.
  2. Distribute the software in any way
  3. Charge a fee to distribute the software after modifying it but the software should still be under GNU GPL.
  4. Make any type of modifications to the software

The LGPL and GPL licenses differ with one major exception. With LGPL the requirement that you have to release software extensions in open GPL has been removed.

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