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Most of the pasted text served as a useful introductory paragraph.

I also made some wordsmith changes to the following few paragraphs.
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Bradley M. Kuhn 2014-11-13 07:36:41 -05:00
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@ -3142,19 +3142,18 @@ GPLv3~\S6(b)(2); GPLv3~\S6(d) is a wholly different provision.)
\subsection{GPLv3~\S6(e): Peer-to-Peer Sharing Networks}
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Section 6 also allows the provision of source via such a server when the
binary or other non-source form is distributed by peer-to-peer protocols such
as BitTorrent. Here the requirement is only that each peer be effectively
GPLv3~\S6(e) allows provision of CCS via another server when the binary or
other non-source form is distributed by peer-to-peer protocols such as
BitTorrent. Here the requirement is only that each peer be effectively
informed of the location of the source code on a server as above.
% FIXME-URGENT: end
Certain decentralized forms of peer-to-peer file sharing present a challenge
GPLv3 really did require this addition, even though it adds complexity to
a key section of GPL\@. In particular,
Decentralized peer-to-peer file sharing present a challenge
to the unidirectional view of distribution that is implicit in GPLv2 and
Draft 1 of GPLv3. Identification of an upstream/downstream link in
initial drafts of GPLv3. Identification of an upstream/downstream link in
BitTorrent distribution is neither straightforward nor reasonable; such
distribution is multidirectional, cooperative and anonymous. In peer-to-peer
distribution is multidirectional, cooperative and (somewhat) anonymous. In peer-to-peer
distribution systems, participants act both as transmitters and recipients of
blocks of a particular file, but they perceive the experience merely as users
and receivers, and not as distributors in any conventional sense. At any