2014-03-24 04:34:31 -04:00
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% Brief Introduction to the GNU General Public License
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% Bradley M. Kuhn
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% Monday 24 March 2014
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# IANAL
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<cite>IANAL</cite>
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2014-03-24 04:36:55 -04:00
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# My Affiliations
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+ Formerly had John's job, Executive Director of FSF, years ago.
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+ Currently: on Board of Directors of FSF.
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+ President of Software Freedom Conservancy.
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2014-03-24 04:42:36 -04:00
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# How These Orgs Relate to GPL?
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+ FSF
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2014-03-24 04:45:59 -04:00
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+ Invented copyleft.
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2014-03-24 04:42:36 -04:00
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+ Authors & stewards of the GPL.
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+ Holder of copyrights on many key GNU programs …
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+ … and therefore enforcers of those copyrights.
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+ Software Freedom Conservancy
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+ Adviser on legal issues of copyright, etc. to Free Software projects.
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+ Holder of some copyrights on its member projects.
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+ Enforcer of GPL on behalf of many copyright holders in:
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+ BusyBox, Samba, Mercurial, and the kernel named Linux.
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