GNU Lesser General Public License

The GNU Lesser General Public License is a software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and the simple permissive licenses of X Window System and BSD. It places a copyleft restriction on individual source code files but doesn't copyleft the program as a whole. The license is useful for software libraries; it was once called the GNU Library General Public License.

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		GNU Lesser General Public License
		The GNU Lesser General Public License is a software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and the simple permissive licenses of X Window System and BSD. It places a copyleft restriction on individual source code files but doesn't copyleft the program as a whole. The license is useful for software libraries; it was once called the GNU Library General Public License. External Link Text of the LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html)
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