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GNU General Public License Version 3

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The GNU General Public License, version 3, was written as an attempt to address concerns raised about version 2 and was officially released by the Free Software Foundation on 29 June 2007. Work on it was announced in late 2005 and a first discussion draft was published on 16 January 2006, when public consultation began. GPLv3 was written by Richard Stallman with legal counsel from Eben Moglen and Richard Fontana of the Software Freedom Law Center. It improved compatibility with several free software licenses, such as the Apache License version 2.0 and the GNU Affero General Public License, which GPLv2 could not be combined with. Like every GPL it is a copyleft license.

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2007 1
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Algorithms and Complexity Theory, Fields

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Bash, Programming Languages
Source GNU Project, Free Software Foundation: GNU Bash
ChibiOS/RT, Systems
Cypher, Programming Languages
Emacs Lisp, Programming Languages
Gforth, Programming Languages
Source Gforth (Wikipedia)
J, Programming Languages
MagiC, Systems
Neo4j, Systems
Nial, Programming Languages
PC-MOS/386, Systems
Solidity, Programming Languages
Sugar (desktop environment), Systems
Source Sugar Labs (sugarlabs/sugar repository): Sugar copying file
Twine (software), Programming Languages
Source Twine (software) (Wikipedia)
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1. Free Software Foundation: GNU General Public License, version 3
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Version 3, 29 June 2007
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Wikipedia: GNU General Public License (for GNU General Public License Version 3)
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The official GPLv3 was released by the FSF on 29 June 2007.
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Wikipedia: GNU General Public License (for GNU General Public License Version 2)
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Gforth (Wikipedia)
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GNU GPLv3
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Twine (software) (Wikipedia)
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GPL v3
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GNU Project, Free Software Foundation: GNU Bash
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Bash is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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Sugar Labs (sugarlabs/sugar repository): Sugar copying file
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007
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