First draft of text explaining GPLv3, geared toward newbies.

gpl-lgpl.tex

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 \section{The GNU General Public License, Version 3}
 
+RMS began drafting GPLv2.2 in mid-2002, and FSF ran a few discussion groups
+during that era about new text of that license.  However, rampant violations
+of the GPL required more immediate attention of FSF's licensing staff, and as
+such, much of the early 2000's was spent doing GPL enforcement
+work\footnote{More on GPL enforcement is discussed in \tutorialpartsplit{a
+    companion tutorial, \texit{A Practical Guide to GPL
+      Compliance}}{Part~\ref{gpl-compliance-guide} of this tutorial}.}.  In
+2006, FSF began in earnest drafting work for GPLv3.
+
+The GPLv3 process began in earnest in January 2006.  It became clear that
+many provisions of the GPL could benefit from modification to fit new
+circumstances and to reflect what the entire community learned from
+experience with version 2.  Given the scale of revision it seems proper to
+approach the work through public discussion in a transparent and accessible
+manner.
+
+The GPLv3 process continued through June 2007, culminating in publication of
+GPLv3 and LGPLv3 on 29 June 2007, AGPLv3 on 19 November 2007, and the GCC
+Runtime Library Exception on 27 January 2009.
+
+All told, four discussion drafts of GPLv3, two discussion drafts of LGPLv3
+and two discussion drafts of AGPLv3 were published and discussed.
+Ultimately, FSF remained the final arbiter and publisher of the licenses, and
+RMS himself their primary author, but input was sought from many parties, and
+these licenses do admittedly look and read more like legislation as a result.
+Nevertheless, all of the ``v3'' group are substantially better and improved
+licenses.
+
 \section{The Innovation of Optional ``Or Any Later'' Version}
 
 \section{Complexities of Two Simultaneously Popular Copylefts}
 
+
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 \chapter{GPLv2: Running Software and Verbatim Copying}
 \label{run-and-verbatim}