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\section{A Community of Equality}
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\section{A Community of Equality}
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The GPL uses copyright law to defend freedom and equally ensure users'
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The previous section described the principles of software freedom, a brief
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rights. This ultimately creates an community of equality for both
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introduction to mechanisms that typically block these freedoms, and the
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business and noncommercial users.
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simplest ways that copyright holders might grant those freedoms to their
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users for their copyrighted works of software. The previous section also
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introduced the idea of \textit{copyleft}: a licensing mechanism to use
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copyright to not only grant software freedom to users, but also to uphold
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those rights against those who might seek to curtail them.
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Copyleft, as defined in \S~\ref{copyleft-definition}, is a general term this
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mechanism. The remainder of this text will discuss details of various
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real-world implementations of copyleft -- most notably, the GPL\@.
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This discussion begins first with some general explanation of what the GPL is
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able to do in software development communities. After that brief discussion
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in this section, deeper discussion of how GPL accomplishes this in practice
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follows in the next chapter.
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Simply put, though, the GPL ultimately creates an community of equality for
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both business and noncommercial users.
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\subsection{The Noncommercial Community}
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\subsection{The Noncommercial Community}
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