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@@ -18,18 +18,20 @@ which to use, we can offer some suggestions. ## I want others to share their improvements with me. The Free Software Foundation publishes the GNU General Public License for this -purpose. In short, it requires anyone who modifies or reuses your code to -publish their changes or the software they incorporated it into under the same -license terms. Version 3 also requires hardware manufacturers to allow users to -install their modifications onto devices which use GPLv3 licensed software. +purpose. In short, it requires anyone who publishes modified versions of your +code or software that uses it to publish their changes or the software they +incorporated it into under the same license terms. Version 3 also requires +hardware manufacturers to allow users to install their modifications onto +devices which use GPLv3 licensed software. [GPLv3 information](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html) — [GPLv3 plain text](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) Authors publishing software which is useful over a network — databases, web applications, and so on — should consider the "Affero" General Public -License, or AGPL, as well. SourceHut itself is distributed with the AGPLv3 -license. +License, or AGPL, as well. The AGPL is similar to the GPL, but its terms also apply +when your software is used to provide a service over a network. Sourcehut itself is +distributed with the AGPLv3 license. [AGPLv3 information](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html) — [AGPLv3 plain text](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt) |