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is the GNU General Public License,
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a particular document in legalese
which accomplishes this job.
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A lot of other people use that same license,
for example,
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Linus Torvalds uses that license for Linux as well.
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Well, the license I use is the
GNU General Public License.
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That's the one Richard Stallman wrote.
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And I think it is really astounding contribution.
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Uh, it's one of the few software licenses
that was written
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from the standpoint of the community rather than
:22:41
from the standpoint of um, protecting a company
:22:46
or um, as is the case with MIT and BSD license
:22:53
performing the goals of
a government grant program.
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Uh, and the GPL is really unique in that.
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It's not just a license.
It's a whole philosophy that,
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I think, motivated the open source definition.
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I don't hide that a lot of what I do came from Stallman.
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A crucial step in the growth of GNU/Linux
and the Free Software movement
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was the creation of businesses
based upon the software and philosophy.
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Grown zero for the beginning of
the business phase
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was the Electronics Research Lab
at Stanford University.
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Known as ERL, the lab was the place for the first GNU
:23:40
and Linux business founder inspiration.
:23:43
So right here was where ERL was.
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That would have been the entrance
over there next to the uh,
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electrical engineering McCullough building.
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As you walk in, you come in,
you walk down the hallway, down here.
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My office would have been about, about here.