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							|  | @ -933,6 +933,29 @@ Section~\ref{GPlv3S14}. | |||
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| \section{Complexities of Two Simultaneously Popular Copylefts} | ||||
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| Obviously most GPL advocates would prefer widespread migration to GPLv3, and | ||||
| many newly formed projects who seek a copyleft license tend to choose a | ||||
| GPLv3-based license.  However, many existing copylefted projects continue | ||||
| with GPLv2-only or GPLv2-or-later as their default license. | ||||
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| While GPLv3 introduces many improvements --- many of which were designed to | ||||
| increase adoption by for-profit companies --- GPLv2 remains a widely used and | ||||
| extremely popular license.  The GPLv2 is, no doubt, a good and useful | ||||
| license. | ||||
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 | ||||
| However, unlike GPLv1, which (as pointed out in \S~\ref{GPLv1}), which is | ||||
| completely out of use by the mid-1990s.  However, unlike GPLv1 before it, | ||||
| GPLv2 remains a integral part of the copyleft licensing infrastructure for | ||||
| some time to come.  As such, those who seek to have expertise in current | ||||
| topics of copyleft licensing need to study both the GPLv2 and GPLv3 family of | ||||
| licenses. | ||||
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 | ||||
| Furthermore, GPLv3 can is more easily understood by first studying GPLv2. | ||||
| This is not only because of their chronological order, but also because much | ||||
| of the discussion material available for GPLv3 tends to talk about GPLv3 in | ||||
| contrast to GPLv2.  As such, a strong understanding of GPLv2 helps in | ||||
| understanding most of the third-party material found regarding GPLv3.  Thus, | ||||
| the following chapter begins a deep discussion of GPLv2. | ||||
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| %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% | ||||
| \chapter{GPLv2: Running Software and Verbatim Copying} | ||||
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