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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} \subsection{GPLv3~\S6(e): Peer-to-Peer Sharing Networks}
% FIXME-urgent: integrate 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
Section 6 also allows the provision of source via such a server when the BitTorrent. Here the requirement is only that each peer be effectively
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. 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 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 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 distribution systems, participants act both as transmitters and recipients of
blocks of a particular file, but they perceive the experience merely as users 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 and receivers, and not as distributors in any conventional sense. At any