The commercial license-based operating system provides structured support unlike one with a GPL license.
The GPL allows end-users to modify and enhance the code, if they desire, to better suit their environment. Some common operating systems, which are released under the GPL, include Linux and BSD.
GPL-General Public license
There is no list unless someone is keeping track of them by themselves.
The most common license used for software distribution is the open-source license, such as the GNU General Public License (GPL) or the MIT License.
The abbreviation GNU stands for 'Gnu's Not Unix' in computing. And the abbreviation GPL stands for 'General Public License' also in computing. Of course, there are could be other abbreviations too.
You do not need a license to edit Linux's source code. The GPL applies only to how you distribute it. End users do not license Linux in any way for use or modification, they're allowed to do anything they like, so long as if they try to redistribute the result they do so under the terms of the GPL.
GNU Public License. "GNU" in turn is a recursive acronym standing for "GNUs Not Unix."
The term "All Rights Reserved" no longer has any meaning because all of the countries it applied to became members of the Berne Union by 2000. All rights reserved is a copyright notice, it is not a license. If the work states it is under the GPL then the terms of that license apply.
No; the General Public License must allow the end user to copy and modify the software.
Csvbridge is is a Java utility that allows you to import and export comma-delimited data (csv files) to and from a PostgreSQL database. license: GPL
In reference to Ray-Ban sunglasses, their GPL lenses are polarized. The GPL stands for Glass Polarized Lens.