What are the key elements of the GPL agreement?
The GNU General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation’s software and to hundreds of other open source products. It is designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software, 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. To protect your rights, there are restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or ask you to surrender these rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software or if you modify it. For example, if you distribute copies of the software, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights. Squiz retains copyright of the MySource Matrix software distributed under the GPL, as you
