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Old Licenses

This page contains old versions of the licenses published by the Free Software Foundation, kept here for reference. You can find current versions of the licenses on our licenses page.

Old versions of the GNU General Public License

Old versions of the GNU Lesser General Public License

This license used to be called the GNU Library General Public License:

Old versions of the GNU Free Documentation License

The old licenses are also available with URLs under /licenses. Please see the license URLs section of the main licensing page for more information.

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