I see that the copyrighted code is distributed according to something called the GNU Public License. What is that?
The GNU Public License (GPL) is a widely recognized software license. The GPL was chosen because it provides a framework in which developers can write and share code. It has been used for several important collaborative software efforts including the Linux operating system and the GNU C compiler (gcc). The GPL was developed by free-software advocate Richard Stallman and is a key component of the free-software movement (which is sometimes also referred to as as the “Open Source” software movement). The statement of the GNU Public License is provided in a text file, gpl.txt, which is provided with the RP1 software distribution. The file also provides a nicely written, quite readable explanation of what the GPL is all about. A web page with the GPL is at the Free Software Foundation.
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