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* [How do I create an alias for ripgrep on Windows?](#rg-alias-windows)
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* [How do I create an alias for ripgrep on Windows?](#rg-alias-windows)
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* [How do I create a PowerShell profile?](#powershell-profile)
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* [How do I create a PowerShell profile?](#powershell-profile)
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* [How do I pipe non-ASCII content to ripgrep on Windows?](#pipe-non-ascii-windows)
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* [How do I pipe non-ASCII content to ripgrep on Windows?](#pipe-non-ascii-windows)
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* [How is ripgrep licensed?](#license)
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* [Can ripgrep replace grep?](#posix4ever)
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* [Can ripgrep replace grep?](#posix4ever)
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* [What does the "rip" in ripgrep mean?](#intentcountsforsomething)
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* [What does the "rip" in ripgrep mean?](#intentcountsforsomething)
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to your profile as well if you want to make the setting permanent.
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<h3 name="license">
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How is ripgrep licensed?
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ripgrep is dual licensed under the
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[Unlicense](https://unlicense.org/)
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and MIT licenses. Specifically, you may use ripgrep under the terms of either
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license.
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The reason why ripgrep is dual licensed this way is two-fold:
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1. I, as ripgrep's author, would like to participate in a small bit of
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ideological activism by promoting the Unlicense's goal: to disclaim
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copyright monopoly interest.
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2. I, as ripgrep's author, would like as many people to use rigprep as
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possible. Since the Unlicense is not a proven or well known license, ripgrep
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is also offered under the MIT license, which is ubiquitous and accepted by
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almost everyone.
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More specifically, ripgrep and all its dependencies are compatible with this
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licensing choice. In particular, ripgrep's dependencies (direct and transitive)
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will always be limited to permissive licenses. That is, ripgrep will never
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depend on code that is not permissively licensed. This means rejecting any
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dependency that uses a copyleft license such as the GPL, LGPL, MPL or any of
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the Creative Commons ShareAlike licenses. Whether the license is "weak"
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copyleft or not does not matter; ripgrep will **not** depend on it.
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<h3 name="posix4ever">
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<h3 name="posix4ever">
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Can ripgrep replace grep?
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Can ripgrep replace grep?
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</h3>
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</h3>
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