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Bradley M. Kuhn
62a0c3b4fb Wordsmithing in the public domain section. 2014-03-15 13:56:28 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
1355337088 Various improvements to the section on copyright, 
in particular including links to the USC.
 2014-03-15 13:40:54 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
f58d197fe1 Minor wordsmithing in the freedom to share improvements. 2014-03-15 12:57:05 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
e6ee7fa2b9 wordsmwithing and rewriting in the "Copy and Share" section. 2014-03-15 12:41:17 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
1b5161f402 Wordsmith on freedom to run and freedom to modify. 2014-03-15 12:36:55 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
3d20605f6d My belief is that the last few changes were copyrightable, 
as such, I now add my copyright notice to this file.
 2014-03-15 12:29:21 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
67115cb257 Explain terminology better. 2014-03-15 12:28:37 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
ed6fe59dfc Updates to the Free Software Definition section. 2014-03-15 12:28:05 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
110e1b08fe Various edit and improvements to the introduction to this part. 2014-03-15 12:11:10 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
9b1cbb88c1 Page will break here anyway, no need for this formatting. 2014-03-15 11:53:07 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
7ad226003d Create and update copyright notice and licensing information. 2014-02-20 13:37:39 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
f5c0cdc919 Remove license text appendix from gpl-lgpl.tex and place it in its own file. 
Really, all these license texts should go at the very end behind all other
materials.
 2014-02-20 12:26:52 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
8696eb1b08 This essay is out of date and completely useless now in these materials. 
More materials will need to instead be written regarding GPLv3.  Section
outlines are already in place for most of that.
 2014-02-20 12:22:59 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
de5fbfffa7 Change title of this part again. 2014-02-20 12:16:19 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
b682a65788 Fix Appendix titles to be clear it's full text of the licenses. 
Formatting fix as well.
 2014-02-20 12:16:13 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
f6ce16a321 Rename a few sections in the main text. 2014-02-20 12:12:14 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
b672627a68 Don't \end{document} here, since this file is now intended for inclusion in 
other files.
 2014-02-20 10:36:51 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
b7c4c11477 missing \end{center} is added. 2014-02-20 10:36:39 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
32c8e6a67d & character must be quoted in LaTeX, of course. 2014-02-20 10:36:17 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
1583f593ca Initial work to merge this into a single comprehensive book. 
This entails removing book-like parts of gpl-lgpl.tex, moving some of it into
this new toplevel file, and some other formatting and related changes.
 2014-02-20 10:33:16 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
faf0949705 Update Section headers for LGPL to include details about LGPLv3. 
My plan is to make interweave discussion of LGPLv2 and LGPLv3 together in
this section.
 2014-02-20 09:38:48 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
3cdd662404 Add outline for GPLv3 chapter. 2014-02-20 09:34:49 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
beaa188166 I just made a copyrightable change to this file, update copyright notice. 2014-02-20 09:27:21 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
337f2e9044 First pass across to find a repair places that say "GPL" to mean GPLv2. 
This text was originally written before GPLv3 existed, and as such it assumes
that "GPL" always means v2.  Herein is the first attempt to rectify that
situation.
 2014-02-20 09:21:18 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
65a3a3fd57 Add section that explains GPLv2 and GPLv3 2014-02-20 08:41:14 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
7e922009ee RMS is right; the word ecosystem is problematic. I'm removing it. 
See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Ecosystem
 2014-02-20 08:38:07 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
9d5ac7e5c1 Add suggestion from Karen about USA gov't software. 2014-02-20 08:35:23 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
15b134f50f Remove text relating to any specific session that teaches this tutorial. 2014-02-20 08:34:34 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
6643da39e9 Comment out inclusion of FSF logo for now until formatting is fully fixed. 2014-02-20 08:34:21 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
e391b67596 Began changes to make it clear that public domain dedication is difficult. 2014-02-20 08:33:59 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
aa419884a6 Hereby relicensing all of these tutorials to CC-By-SA-4.0. 
I am relicensing these with verbal permission from John Sullivan, Executive
Director of the FSF, which was given to me during a conference call on
Wednesday 12 February 2014.
 2014-02-16 16:43:40 -05:00
John Sullivan
e945c0a7a5 Fixed mashed up schedule entry. 2014-02-16 16:40:39 -05:00
John Sullivan
1f05cd5515 Added GPL3 article by Moglen and Stallman, added schedule and bios, fixed broken URL. 2014-02-16 16:39:19 -05:00
David \"Novalis\" Turner
04ffc89b8f Added AGPL 2014-02-16 16:36:40 -05:00
John Sullivan
a380b6babb Added option to specify letterpaper. 2014-02-16 16:35:49 -05:00
John Sullivan
80295e9c55 Incorporate Wynne's edits and the SF082400 schedule, and formatting changes. 2014-02-16 16:34:56 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
d1de64cafd Various updates and edits following the 2004-01-20 course. 2014-02-16 15:38:32 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
817aa177f1 * Added Dan changes and improved formatting 2014-02-16 15:35:30 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
ce82a1d116 * Finished initial writing on LGPL 2014-02-16 15:34:51 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
02819d4d97 * Added a lot of material on LGPL 2014-02-16 15:34:30 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
e6d0bfa9f8 * added text of LGPL to document 2014-02-16 15:28:01 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
6c9b78d9d5 Initial versions of GPL/LGPL course, based on previous gpl "business" course. 2014-02-16 15:14:06 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
fcd203294a * As submitted to OSCON 2003 2014-02-16 14:20:39 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
16f6215850 * Maded changes based on additional feedback from novalis 2014-02-16 14:20:12 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
9a799821ef * Wrote about business model and compliance chapter 
(section{GPL \S 3: Producing Binaries}): Fixed typo.
	(chapter{Integrating the GPL into Business Practices}): Wrote
	chapter.
 2014-02-16 14:19:05 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
39390252fc * Wrote about GPL Section 9, 10, 11, and 12 
(chapter{Odds, Ends, and Absolutely No Warranty}): Wrote chapter.
 2014-02-16 14:17:59 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
f8562aaf55 * Made changes based on feedback from novalis 
(section{GPL \S 8: Excluding Unfreedonia}): Wrote section.
	Made changes based on novalis' feedback.
 2014-02-16 14:16:38 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
c40b88ad40 * Wrote about GPL Section 7 
Added typo fixes from Ammad.
	(section{GPL \S 7: ``Give Software Liberty of Give It Death!''}):
	Wrote section.
 2014-02-16 14:14:46 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
34ae4308af * Wrote about GPL Section 6 and minor editing fixes 
(section{GPL \S 6: GPL, My One and Only}): Wrote section.
	(section{GPL \S 8: }): Moved to previous chapter.
 2014-02-16 14:14:07 -05:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
5a4c6c22a9 * Wrote about GPL Section 5 and spell-checked 2014-02-16 14:12:39 -05:00