Software created under the GPL can be modified by developers, with any changes made freely available to the community.

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In a USENIX session on this subject, Apple's senior software engineer Fred Sanchez said that Apple was wary of software licensed under the popular GNU Public License (GPL), because of the restrictions placed on incorporating the code into commercial software.

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The GNU GPL undertakes to make sure that every user of the software has these four freedoms.

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