1.057 | The General Public License (GPL) Used For The L

Linus Torvalds started the creation of the Linux "kernel", which is the core of the Linux OS. And Linus chose to use the General Public License (a.k.a. GPL, GPL agreement) as the license for the downloading, copying and general distribution of Linux.

The Linux kernel and most of the free software components in any Linux "distribution", including Ubuntu Linux, were created as part of the GNU (GNU's Not Unix) project. And these Linux software components are made available to