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Bradley M. Kuhn
29e2d38e9d Wrote section on "grey hat" GPL enforcement.
The inspiration for this section came from the pasted text, which
ultimately whitewashed this well-known and complex situation.  While my
new text likely has the biases inherent in a COGEO-oriented focused
document, so perhaps future patches that soften that side of it would be
helpful.

However, I believe generally that the new section describes the
situation substantially better than the terse pasted text that lauded
it.

Finally, this section is written to build up to some level of crescendo,
since the conclusion immediately follows it.
2014-11-11 22:02:38 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
5bc647b591 Full rewrite of the new M&A compliance section.
Again, upon careful reading of the pasted text, it was clearly not
as useful as it first appeared, and is in fact somewhat misleading.

This rewrite does a better job explaining the necessary focus required
for an M&A situation.  The section could use some work, but generally
speaking IMO this new does a better job than both the pasted text and
other texts on the issues I've read elsewhere.
2014-11-11 21:23:58 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
fed5eac075 Correct and integrate this pasted paragraph.
Upon closer inspection, this pasted paragraph contained a clear error:
as written.  Specifically, it stated that compliance was automatic if
you merely "pass along" the CCS received from upstream.  It's IOTTMCO
that this is wrong.  I've corrected it and integrated the text.
2014-11-11 19:25:10 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
e24942c98b Integrate this LGPL text properly.
Upon a more detailed reading, it's clear this pasted text belongs in the
LGPL license analysis section, but that in fact some other text was
needed to improve the end of the section on LGPL in the compliance
guide.
2014-11-11 19:21:50 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
746eff5786 Link LGPL compliance section to LGPL analysis.
Since so little material is currently given on LGPL compliance, it's
likely best to link back to the chapter on LGPL compliance.

Besides, I don't think there really is anything additional the
compliance guide can add regarding LGPL compliance, other than the
detail license analysis on LGPL already available in that part of the
text.

(Note labels had to be added for the chapters that didn't previously
exist.)
2014-11-11 19:21:21 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
8b4497c6db This may better appear here. 2014-11-11 18:59:29 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
36a6c7232e Rewrite section to incorporate text properly.
Much of the existing pasted text had subtle condescension toward
developers, which I've cleaned up here.  Admittedly, I may have over
compensated  and added subtle condescension toward lawyers.
2014-11-11 11:53:32 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
472f89bedb Add use of CEGEO term here as well.
I still find my CEGEO acronym cumbersome, but I might as well commit to
using it until a better one comes along.
2014-11-11 11:53:05 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
82831c9b81 Integrate this text and rewrite to make it work.
Also creates some label for references back.
2014-11-11 11:40:38 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
8c1bf649d7 Integrate short sentence into main text. 2014-11-11 08:22:42 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
29738b3419 Integrate short sentence. 2014-11-11 08:21:10 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
dc12fa1a10 Integrate these texts and provide additional links 2014-11-10 22:11:54 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
c83c789fd0 Correct formatting on footnote. 2014-11-10 21:57:48 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
4a22feba06 This should say GPLv3 here. 2014-11-10 21:11:28 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
a43a205f9b Incorporate new text fully into this section. 2014-11-10 21:10:57 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
46d8650bec Remove problematic text.
After rereading this text a few times, I realized that it doesn't
actually say anything of value.  It looks pretty but is devoid of
meaning (or, less glibly, it doesn't express any concept not already
covered by other text in the tutorial), so I'm cutting it entirely.
2014-11-10 21:07:18 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
4daa86b30f Some rewording of this section, mostly wordsmith. 2014-11-10 20:16:07 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
a32bea9563 Properly quote & characters. 2014-11-10 19:14:01 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
851be52e62 Rework two compliance guide sections in Background
Some of the text pasted in earlier commits was certainly useful, but
needed a complete rework.

Also, the text pasted was far too terse, and more detail was needed.

Therefore, I've moved text around and build a more comprehensive
Background section.  I've moved the burgeoning "Understanding Who's
Enforcing" section into the Background chapter and made it complete.

Probably the most bizarre (?) change I've made here is coining this
acronym COGEO.  This is non-optimal for sure, and I've added a FIXME to
seek a better term.
2014-11-10 18:56:14 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
2ce793aa05 Integrate text describing copyright holders.
The enforcement section now has an integrated paragraph describing how
enforcement relates to copyright, and refers back to a related section
much earlier in the tutorial.
2014-11-10 16:46:50 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
8e360c9db8 Formatting fix. 2014-11-10 16:36:59 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
a1b059184c Incorporate useful text from a third party work.
Software Freedom Law Center, a small law firm specializing in Open
Source, recently published its so-called "Guide to GPL Compliance,
Second Edition":
http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2014/SFLC-Guide_to_GPL_Compliance_2d_ed.html

The Firm's document is substantially less comprehensive than this one;
however, their document contained a few phrases and paragraphs that
seemed useful and accurate.  This commit incorporates the useful
material from that work into this one (as permitted by the CC BY-SA 4.0
license, which the Software Freedom Law Center applied to their work).

The useful sections have been pasted without proper textual integration
into the appropriate sections of this tutorial.  A few are currently
commented out entirely and marked with appropriate FIXME's.  Meanwhile,
the text that seems immediately useful is *not* commented out, and is
marked with "FIXME-URGENT".  Additional work is now required to
integrate the new text properly into this tutorial.

Careful readers who compare this commit with The Firm's document will
find that I passed on inclusion of some seemingly useful material.
Unfortunately, The Firm's text contained some inaccuracies, and frames
discussion primarily from a for-profit perspective.  More disturbingly,
a few statements even directly contradicted the FSF's stated policies.
Of course, The Firm clearly claims "this document does not express the
views, intentions, policy, or legal analysis of any SFLC clients or
client organizations", but I could not in good conscience adopt, as the
official advice in this tutorial, any text that conflicts with the FSF's
policies, nor will I incorporate any puffery that subtly kowtows to
for-profit corporate interests.

Nevertheless, given The Firm's perceived stature, I briefly considered
including policy-conflicting statements, attributing them as alternative
third-party opinions; many of the FSF's own opinions were already
incorporated in that manner earlier this year.  Indeed, I will not prima
facie reject future patches that integrate such statements naturally for
this tutorial.  However, I feel that the didactic value of including The
Firm's attributed dissenting opinions in this tutorial does not outweigh
my editing effort required for such additional textual integration.

Regarding Software Freedom Law Center's copyrights included herein,
I took the following specific actions to comply with CC By SA 4.0:

§3(a)(1)(a)(i):    This log message indicates Software Freedom Law Center
                   as the source of the material herein committed.

§3(a)(1)(a)(i):    Copyright notices at the top level of the document,
                   as well as those in individual parts, are updated to
                   include the 2014 copyright notice from the Software
                   Freedom Law Center.

§3(a)(1)(a)(ii-v): The project already referred to and included a copy
§3(b)(1):          of CC BY SA 4.0 International and its URL.

§3(a)(2):          The attribution information is fully included in
                   this Git repository.

§3(a)(3):          I and this project have received no such request.

§3(b)(1):          The license of the larger work was already
                   CC BY SA 4.0 International.

§3(b)(3):          No such conditions are imposed.
2014-11-10 16:21:53 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
cedd23d4cc Termination inevitability w/ aggregated GPLv2-only
Most redistributors, at least with regard to embedded systems, typically
include the kernel named Linux with their distribution.  As such, even
when GPLv2-or-later and/or GPLv3-{only, or-later} works are included in
the aggregation, the termination implications are effectively those of
GPLv2-only, since it's unlikely in any event the violator will remove
the GPLv2-only work (particularly if it's Linux).
2014-11-10 07:52:56 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
9641db188d FIXME: no discussion of GPLv2 system lib exception 2014-11-10 07:03:28 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
41c72f36e8 Slightly reword. 2014-11-09 17:56:35 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
19df46c78b Merge branch 'master' after 'next' ff merge.
There was one minor change on master branch not included on next that
was handled a different way on next branch.
2014-11-09 17:52:55 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
febf4dd8cd Additional LocalWords that speller should accept. 2014-11-09 17:23:27 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
7b025e18aa Full copyedit pass of ThinkPenguin chapter. 2014-11-09 17:21:19 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
675f66f5f3 Correct formatting on code listings.
The indention is coming through as non-breaking spaces in the HTML
output, which is not correct.
2014-11-09 16:44:00 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
d3b6d1cda7 Improve CSS for code listing and quotation. 2014-11-09 16:42:17 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
99fccc120c PDF output doesn't have enough space here. 2014-11-09 16:11:45 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
aae402b322 Add CSS for lstlisting and quotations from tex4ht
I based these primarily on blockquote and code formatting from Boostrap.
2014-11-09 16:11:24 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
68421306b9 Properly include reference. 2014-11-09 15:41:03 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
04a297b360 Correct \texttt{} commands. 2014-11-09 15:40:56 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
2ab078f9ce Corrected directive. 2014-11-09 15:30:20 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
54f94ca0a9 FIXME regarding inconsistent code example formats 2014-11-09 14:07:02 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
0967aed577 Additional lesson learned. 2014-11-09 14:06:44 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
c2c5402f8f Additional minor annoyances & summary for section. 2014-11-09 14:05:48 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
ed8ed30fab Wordsmith this sentence. 2014-11-09 14:05:26 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
0a37731b72 Rewrote U-Boot Installation section.
My primary goal here was to put the text into a consistent voice, and
convert the text to a more flowing narrative rather than a step-by-step
list.

In a few places, I added commentary on the process where it seemed
appropriate, but I strove to keep that minimal.

Finally, labels to some unlabeled sections of gpl-lgpl.tex were needed
for back-references used in my rewrite.
2014-11-09 13:57:14 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
3ee46d6770 A few FIXMEs for formatting hacks. 2014-11-09 12:20:32 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
91cc79f12a Make this multi-line so it's not a run-off line.
It's mostly fine in HTML and PDF, but it's completely cut off in
Postscript output.
2014-11-09 11:34:07 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
a45f702c2a Formatting fixes for copyright notices. 2014-11-09 11:25:45 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
1d48b4ae25 Rewrite introduction to U-Boot Installation.
Includes some additional detail from the instructions themselves.
2014-11-09 11:20:49 -05:00
Denver Gingerich
3d2bd4a725 Add "U-Boot Installation" sec w/ netcat suggestion 2014-11-09 11:16:46 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
35947f81c5 Merge after rebase against master & new addition.
My rewrite of the intro needed merging.
2014-11-09 10:21:20 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
65644adce4 Rewrite introduction to U-Boot Installation.
Includes some additional detail from the instructions themselves.
2014-11-09 10:17:58 -05:00
Denver Gingerich
a85626f9d9 Add "U-Boot Installation" sec w/ netcat suggestion 2014-11-09 07:51:09 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
cd7143d917 Correct grammar errors in appendix license info. 2014-11-09 05:51:28 -05:00
Denver Gingerich
3da9449e68 Add BusyBox output/kernel log; update study FIXME 2014-11-08 12:16:45 -05:00