Z:gnu-www-ja-200104 seminar--da5759-The ethical principles that mo/en

The ethical principles that motivated the creation of these licenses are presented. Unlike licenses that seek to lock up software in a proprietary fashion, the GPL and LGPL are designed to grant freedom to innovate, learn and improve. Those principles influence licensing policy decisions. We present the specific definition of the concept of &ldquo;Free Software&rdquo; (software whose license grants freedoms to copy, share, modify and redistribute the software either gratis or for a fee) for for-profit companies.