GNU-GENERAL-PUBLIC-LICENSE

Understand what this license means

The whole idea is that we can mash-up each other's work by giving original credits.

First, let's Seth Godin explain what it is. Taken from Seth's podcast Akimbo, episode "All rights reserved." This worths 1m40 of your time. https://pascalandy.com/blog/what-is-the-gnu-gpl-license/

Second, here is Plain English explanation by the GNU's creator Richard Stallman.

https://youtu.be/iBVgcjhYV2A?t=17m11s (between 17m11 to 19m24)

Why forking this license?

I wanted a clean Markdown version of the license.

No matter how I trust the open-source community, I feel it’s not best practice to:

Use a link that points to a licence written by a third party
Use licence(s) proposed by GitHub

If any changes happen, how do you know it's still right for you? By using scenario #1 or #2, you could put yourself in a position where you may lose control of what the licence was supposed to mean at the moment you read it.

I believe everyone should fork the licence they want to use on their git repo.

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Why, Contributing, License

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Why all this work?

Our mission is to empower freelancers and small organizations to build an outstanding mobile-first website.

Because we believe your website should speak up in your name, we consider our mission completed once your site has become your impresario.

Find me on Twitter @askpascalandy.

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Contributing

The power of communities pull request and forks means that 1 + 1 = 3. You can help to make this repo a better one! Here is how:

Fork it
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
Submit a pull request

Check this post for more details: Contributing to our Github project. Also, by contributing you agree to the Contributor Code of Conduct on GitHub.

License

Project: https://github.com/pascalandy/GNU-GENERAL-PUBLIC-LICENSE

Find the GNU General Public License V3 at: https://github.com/pascalandy/GNU-GENERAL-PUBLIC-LICENSE/blob/master/LICENSE.md

Basically, you have to credit my work AND keep it open source. by Pascal Andy | https://pascalandy.com/blog/now/

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