Licensed under GNU GPL version 3 or any later version
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- Statement
- The LICENSE file states that Notepad++ may be redistributed and/or modified under the GNU General Public License Version 3; the per-file notices grant version 3 "or at your option any later version", which SPDX expresses as GPL-3.0-or-later. The header also refers to "clarifications and exceptions described below", but the retrieved file contains no such additional terms (as published 2026-09-27; header dated 2021).
- Applies when
- Identifying the licence of a Notepad++ release for inventory or redistribution review.
- Applies to
- Notepad++ 7.9.3 and later