The GNU Lesser General Public License is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation. It allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own, even proprietary, software without being required by the terms of a strong copyleft license to release the source code of their own components, although anyone who modifies an LGPL-covered component must make the modified version available under the same license. The license was first published in 1991 as the GNU Library General Public License with version number 2, and it was revised in minor ways in the 2.1 point release, published in 1999, when it was renamed. The article notes that this version is deprecated by the Free Software Foundation.
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Entity-backed identity for the license enum value this item already carries, resolved to a software license concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The license fact itself stays on the item unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the license enum value this item already carries, resolved to a software license concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The license fact itself stays on the item unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the license enum value this item already carries, resolved to a software license concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The license fact itself stays on the item unchanged.
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Wikipedia: GNU Lesser General Public License (for GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1)
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The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
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