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Whats the difference between AbiWord and AbiWord Personal?

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Whats the difference between AbiWord and AbiWord Personal?

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Whatever you want it to be. One of the cool things about AbiWord is that it is Open Source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Among other things, this means that you have the right to make and distribute as many verbatim copies of AbiWord as you like. Even better, being GPL means that you also have the right to take the source code to AbiWord, make whatever changes you would like, and create a new personal version of AbiWord, also under the GPL. (For a better understanding of your rights to GPL software, read it — as software licenses go, it’s pretty readable. As always, when in doubt, ask a lawyer.) To put it another way: Say you take a copy of AbiWord, get the matching sources and then build a new personal version of AbiWord. If you do not make any other changes, then the *only* difference between the two programs will be the artwork. Otherwise, they are identical — feature for feature. If you add tons of cool features, then your copy of AbiWord P