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362292c692 Relevant text from FSF's "Opinion on Additional Terms" from circa 2006-07-27 
I (Bradley M. Kuhn) carefully went through FSF's "Opinion on Additional
Terms", which appears to have been published on Wednesday 2 August 2006 (a
few days after the second GPLv2 discussion published on Thursday 27 July
2006), and merged in any relevant text and descriptions that might be of use
in this tutorial.

The raw material used for this commit can be found here:
    http://gplv3.fsf.org/opinions-draft-2.html
Specifically, a copy of the LaTeX sources are here:
    http://gplv3.fsf.org/additional-terms-dd2.tex

As I merged in this text, I added FIXME's where it seemed the text was
incomplete or referred to parts of GPLv3 draft text that disappeared in later
versions.

Finally, note that this material was originally copyrighted and licensed as
follows:

  Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted
  worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and the
  copyright notice, are preserved.

However, I am hereby relicensing this material to CC-By-SA-4.0, with the
verbal permission from John Sullivan, Executive Director of the FSF, which
was given to me during a conference call on Wednesday 12 February 2014.
 2014-03-19 10:51:10 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
c47dd04cef Note that gplv3.fsf.org has more information about GPLv3. 2014-03-19 10:08:13 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
05af800f59 Reword introductory paragraph on license compatibility. 
Update FIXME to be slightly more verbose.
 2014-03-19 10:01:57 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
59bff741f2 Small formatting fixes in this paragraph. 2014-03-19 10:00:54 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
5e6a129b4c Rewrite paragraph to mention minified Javascript, and other changes. 
Also, update the FIXMEs to be more verbose.
 2014-03-19 10:00:03 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
52695626f0 Paragraph refill only. 2014-03-19 09:58:46 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
85989f711b Rewording on propagate description section, 
including an updated FIXME to check later.
 2014-03-19 09:58:25 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
00541cf8f1 That last commit completed this FIXME, I think. 2014-03-19 09:57:16 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
1857efb0fb Rewrite this paragraph, including formatting changes. 2014-03-19 09:57:00 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
728c800bf3 Add better introduction to this section on defined terms, 
including a nice anecdote.
 2014-03-19 09:54:12 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
3694e446db Rewrite paragraph to refer to FSF in third person and change tense, 
and also wordsmith it a bit.
 2014-03-19 09:52:54 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
37f3a75b9d Merge these two paragraphs into one. 2014-03-19 09:50:51 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
ca13e0dcb1 Include more about CCS as a defined term, 
including a footnote explaining why it's still called CCS.
 2014-03-19 09:50:08 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
4cea1c4645 Relevant text from GPLv3 First Discussion Draft Rationale of 2006-01-16. 
I carefully went through FSF's First Discussion Draft Rationale, which was
published on Monday 16 January 2006 and merged in any relevant text and
descriptions that might be of use in this tutorial.

The raw material used for this commit can be found here:
       http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-rationale-2006-01-16.html
Specifically, a copy of the LaTeX sources are here:
       http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-rationale-2006-01-16.tex

As I merged in this text, I added FIXME's where it seemed the text was
incomplete or referred to parts of GPLv3 draft text that disappeared in later
versions.

Finally, note that this material was originally copyrighted and licensed as
follows:

  Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted
  worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and the
  copyright notice, are preserved.

However, I am hereby relicensing this material to CC-By-SA-4.0, with the
verbal permission from John Sullivan, Executive Director of the FSF, which
was given to me during a conference call on Wednesday 12 February 2014.
 2014-03-19 09:44:59 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
5ef15e08a0 Beginnings of chapter on GPLv3. 2014-03-19 07:53:50 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
b66035e69e Typo fixing and wordsmithing. 2014-03-18 18:49:37 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
2e8178b28d Rewrite of the paragraph about conspicuous warranty disclaimers. 
I went looking for that case that Dan mentioned to me when I wrote that, but
couldn't find it.  He never told me what it was, so I don't think I should
reference it.  If we haven't found it in 10 years, maybe it doesn't exist?
 2014-03-18 18:48:40 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
618ddec730 We now have a chapter earlier that discusses this in more detail, 
just reference that instead of this other text that was here.
 2014-03-18 18:43:21 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
0ebf2969f4 Spacing fixes. 2014-03-18 18:41:10 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
01405a111a GPLv2, Section 8 is gone and there isn't much to say about it anymore. 2014-03-18 18:40:28 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
80447ede07 Wordsmith and formatting fixes. 2014-03-18 18:37:53 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
eeee6e0df9 Add paragraph regarding Jacobsen. 2014-03-18 18:33:35 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
e893d9d782 Wordsmith and typo fixes. 2014-03-18 18:33:18 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
fcec57fe6d Move this text to the compliance guide, which is really where it belongs. 2014-03-18 18:26:14 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
2bafeda59e Relicensing is different. Note to that issue on the compliance guide. 2014-03-18 18:25:01 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
6d116fa1f3 Various wordsmith and formatting changes. 2014-03-18 18:04:51 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
d5864804ba Various wordsmith and formatting changes. 2014-03-18 18:00:14 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
47e37c955c A footnote to explain compilation (computing) vs. compilation (copyright). 
I wouldn't have thought this would be necessary, until years ago when a
lawyer on the now defunct open-bar list tried to claim that because the same
word, "compilation", was used to describe the process of converting source to
binaries and aggregating works into an anthology that they automatically mean
the same thing.
 2014-03-18 17:44:36 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
ace387b098 More wordsmith and formatting fixes. 2014-03-18 17:21:11 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
adc4d167bb UCITA was never widely adopted and it's long since passed. 
However, they appear to be on the books in MA and VA, so I've noted this
here.
 2014-03-18 17:07:11 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
3815a3d225 Wordsmith and typo fixes. 2014-03-18 17:06:36 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
54d57e9281 Properly label license names and proper formatting of section symbol. 
Throughout the document, there were inconsistencies in how the \S was used,
and also there were many places where it was used to refer to section numbers
but not the document they were in.

Since the tutorial now covers so many different licenses, be pedantic about
this throughout and ensure the \S is never without its document name.
 2014-03-18 17:02:29 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
8399b0a796 Wordsmithing and typo fixes. 2014-03-18 16:42:04 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
07828daf38 Put a fine point on this. 2014-03-18 16:40:12 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
b364be0e43 IMO, this is a much better example of fair use, and has real world implications too. 2014-03-18 16:39:07 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
2d58414de7 Some wordsmith work. 2014-03-18 16:34:56 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
b174bad711 Typo fix. 2014-03-16 19:34:36 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
5d93036c53 Correct all labels and references to use GPL version number in them. 2014-03-16 19:34:32 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
a749f38dee Wrote section on two copylefts. 2014-03-16 19:30:53 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
163368ebf8 First draft of section regarding "or-later". 
Includes labels needed for forward-references used herein.
 2014-03-16 18:00:34 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
79941dd334 Note that GPLv3 is discussed in detail in later chapter. 2014-03-16 17:23:13 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
7f493a236a First draft of text explaining GPLv3, geared toward newbies. 2014-03-16 17:20:53 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
a333f11d11 Use new \tutorialpartsplit command to handle splitting this apart. 2014-03-16 16:29:08 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
a700a8caa6 I'm starting to think Conny looks better. 
Long term, as mentioned in a previous commit, we should look at the memoir
package.
 2014-03-16 16:24:44 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
76284eab94 new command for when tutorials are split apart. 
First arg is what to say when it's by itself, second arg is for when they are
integrated.
 2014-03-16 16:21:58 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
3158f32e47 Introductory discussion of GPLv2 for this section that introduces it. 2014-03-16 16:21:17 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
9cbbf7e34c Formatting fixes. 2014-03-16 16:20:18 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
23d356cbf6 Wrote section on GPLv1. 2014-03-16 15:26:04 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
ac74d63488 First revision of these two sections. 2014-03-16 15:11:17 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
90f1aab656 Two spaces everywhere. 2014-03-15 18:45:11 -04:00