Basic Permissions GPLv3 section 2

GPLv3 Sections 2 is about the rights granted with the GPLv3.

In the following way:

2. Basic Permissions.

All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.

You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force. You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you with facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with the terms of this License in conveying all material for which you do not control copyright. Those thus making or running the covered works for you must do so exclusively on your behalf, under your direction and control, on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of your copyrighted material outside their relationship with you.

Conveying under any other circumstances is permitted solely under the conditions stated below. Sublicensing is not allowed; section 10 makes it unnecessary.

(Copyright holder of the license agreement itself  is the Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>  Everyone is permitted by the copyright holder, to copy and distribute verbatim copies of the copyright  license document. Changing the copyright-agreement, is not allowed. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html.)

More about GPLv3.


Text is modified and available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

Felix Arndt “The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL)” 2015; https://mrimagma.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/the-gnu-free-documentation-license-gnu-fdl-or-simply-gfdl/

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