the licenses for most software are designed
to take away your freedom to share and change
it by contrast the gnu general public license
is intended to guarantee your freedom to share
and change free software to make sure the
software is free for all its users this general
public license applies to most of the free
software foundations software and to any other
program whose authors commit to using it some
other free software foundation software is
covered by the gnu library general public
license instead you can apply it to your programs too when we speak off reesoftware
we are referring to freedom not price our
general public licenses are designed to make
sure that you have the freedom to distribute
copies of free software and charge for this
service if you wish that you receive source
code or can get it if you want it that you
can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs and that you know you
can do these things