Past participle of a verb created from an acronym
Standard GPL would require that those applications be GPL'd (or compatible licensing), whereas LGPL requires only the library's source to be made available.
Is the use of words like GPL'd common to other acronyms?
Is the meaning of such words understandable from common people?
Answer
Yes, I think these are generally understandable to people. Converting nouns to verbs on the fly with no morphological markings or suffixes is quite common in English today.
Another example that came to mind:
- EOL'd. (End-Of-Life, referring to product lines)
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