The GNU General Public License
Propriety licenses for most software packages are designed to eliminate freedom of sharing and changing formats. By contrast, the General Public License commonly known as GPL is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and edit any versions of a program and ensuring software remains free for all its users. view the full license.
Utilising Open Source Software benefits you
Open source software is a collaboration of community developers and contributors progressively improving and revising developed software ultimately offering an end user the highest standards of development. The Benefits of open source software under the General Public License is that it can be utilised, revised and duplicated with the freedom to re-distribute both modified or unmodified projects without restriction as long as further recipients are also afforded the same opportunity.
