Licensing Information

The standard STLinux Distribution comprises a number of packages each with an associated license. In the table below, alongside each package is a description of the license type, for example GPL, and in the right hand column of the table a link is provided to the actual wording of the license. The most common licenses are the GNU Public License (GPL) and the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL). There are different versions of the GPL and the LGPL, however all of the GPL and LGPL packages on this site are licensed under Version 2 (or earlier) of the GPL or the LGPL. The GNU licenses are administered by the Free Software Foundation.

Another commonly used license type is the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) developed by the University of California in order to ensure academic freedom relating to software works. The remaining packages are covered by a variety of open source licenses, most of which are simple and straightforward. Further information can be found on the respective websites.

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