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Support of Epidemic daily and week formats in Version 5.4.2 is a result of pandemic coronavirus data needs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/ReleaseNotes_5_4_2.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2021-06-08 |archive-date=2021-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608120649/http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/ReleaseNotes_5_4_2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Development Version 5.5 is 2021 available.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gnuplot.info/docs_5.5/Gnuplot_5_5.pdf|format=PDF|title=gnuplot 5.5 : An Interactive Plotting Program : Thomas Williams & Colin Kelley|website=Gnuplot.info|access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref>

== Distribution terms ==

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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? | website=Gnuplot.info | access-date=2015-02-21}}</ref>

Official source code to gnuplot is freely redistributable, but modified versions thereof are not. The gnuplot license allows instead 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 : gnuplot-main : [bcc809] : Copyright|website=Sourceforge.net|access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref>

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* JGNUPlot, a java-based GUI<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jgp.sourceforge.net/|title=JGNUplot homepage|website=Jgp.sourceforge.net|access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref>

* Kayali<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/kayali/|title=Kayali|website=Sourceforge.net|access-date=27 June 2022}}</ref> a [[computer algebra system]]

* xldlas, an old X11 statistics package<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/xldlas.html |title=ArchivedXldlas copy- A basic statistical package for X windows |access-date=2014-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031022018/http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/xldlas.html |archive-date=2014-10-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

* gnuplotxyz, an old Windows program<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Wiss/FB/15/Sustainability/schneider/gnuplot/|title = Home · uwe-schneider/Gnuplotxyz Wiki|website=Uni-hamburg}}</ref>

* wxPinter, a graphical plot manager for gnuplot<ref>{{cite web|title = Steingrube|url = http://www.steingrube-home.de/software_wxPinter.html|website = www.steingrube-home.de|access-date = 2015-08-21|first = Daniel S.|last = Steingrube|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151026154709/http://www.steingrube-home.de/software_wxPinter.html|archive-date = 2015-10-26|url-status = dead}}</ref>