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It is not "recommended", it is a legal requirement
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Despite gnuplot's name, it is not named after, part of or related to the [[GNU Project]], nor does it use the [[GNU General Public License]]. It was named as part of a compromise by the original authors, punning on ''[[gnu]]'' (the animal) and ''newplot''.<ref name="gnuplot faq">{{cite web | url=http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/faq.html#x1-70001.2 | title=1.2 How did it come about and why is it called gnuplot? | publisher=gnuplot | access-date=2015-02-21}}</ref>
 
Official source code to gnuplot is freely redistributable, but modified versions thereof are not. The gnuplot license insteadallows recommendsinstead distribution of patches against official releases, optionally accompanied by officially released source code. Binaries may be distributed along with the unmodified source code and any patches applied thereto. Contact information must be supplied with derived works for [[technical support]] for the modified software.<ref name=lice>{{cite web
|url=https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/master/tree/Copyright
|title=gnuplot licence}}</ref>