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Bradley M. Kuhn
97deccc4d1 Rewrite paragraph, removing reference to long defunct patent retaliation. 2014-03-20 08:42:17 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
cb18441eba Labels now necessary due to addition from last commit. 2014-03-20 08:40:28 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
eeaf851345 Write paragraph on "unmodified Program", relating it to User Product issue. 2014-03-20 08:40:19 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
c74733d567 Note about how I'd like to make the HTML version formatted a bit better, 
using stuff from what Texinfo does.
 2014-03-20 08:39:10 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
e0a91a924c Rewrite these two paragraphs to fit the tutorial, including new intro to them. 2014-03-20 08:32:02 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
0efbc4029f Last wordsmith pass of this footnote. It's not worth more time than this, 
I'm just having fun with it.
 2014-03-20 08:26:05 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
0ea62d5ff9 Wordsmith the footnote from previous commit. 2014-03-20 08:22:29 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
5f356c351a Correct name of macro. 2014-03-20 08:17:52 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
77579a83f4 Integrate case law reference on conspicuousness into this existing text. 
Include my lawyer-bashing-ish little anecdote too, just for fun.
 2014-03-20 08:17:19 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
c7a3684824 Integrate text regarding GPLv2§8 learned during GPLv3 into this section. 
I had to substantially rewrite the text pasted from the rationale document
here to fit the text into the GPLv2-specific discussion that intended for
this section of the tutorial.
 2014-03-20 08:09:29 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
ebefdf8de8 Move this text out of the way from discussion of section 2. 2014-03-20 08:02:05 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
0f3bc95c51 Rework pasted text into a coherent description of system library exception. 
This required writing a lot of additional text to make it work.

I also added my cheeky rule of thumb. :)
 2014-03-20 08:01:17 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
f65ecb47a6 Actually, this text does belong in this section, with a forward reference. 
I also wordsmithed it to work better in this section.
 2014-03-20 06:47:59 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
ed42a7eba5 This text on Installation Information is a description of GPLv3§6, 
not of GPLv3§2.
 2014-03-20 06:41:07 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
428a539c16 Edited text into a coherent description of source code and CCS. 2014-03-20 06:39:51 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
d587d3556c Put together transition section. 2014-03-20 05:48:50 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
262ba65e3f Wrote a description of Appropriate Legal Notice from scratch. 2014-03-20 05:48:29 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
ae87bcb281 Put together explanation convey from pasted text and some additions of my own. 2014-03-20 05:42:48 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
88388e6d24 Merge together text that explains propagation. 2014-03-20 05:38:49 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
1eef642eff Covered Work definition. 2014-03-20 05:25:22 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
07a02b0b1c Merge various texts to a coherent section on "modify" & internationalization. 
Ultimately, some of the text related to "modify" made good seed material to
explain the internationalization motivations of GPLv3.  That text is moved
and expanded, and the various parts about the "modify" definition are merged
together into one subsection.
 2014-03-19 19:17:52 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
769edf2a7b Patent defined terms are in that section, note that here. 2014-03-19 18:34:41 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
8ce1870cef Wordsmith whole section. 2014-03-19 18:32:45 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
edcdf9977a Merge commit from 'refs/merge-requests/5' of gitorious.org:gpl-compliance-tools/tutorial 
into my local gitorious-merge-requests/005
 2014-03-19 18:10:44 -04:00
Free Software Foundation
221481f33b Relevant text from FSF's "GPLv3 Final Rationale" as released on 2007-06-29. 
I (Bradley M. Kuhn) went through FSF's "GPLv3 Final Rationale", and pasted in
any sections that seemed useful to this tutorial.  There is a lot of
interesting material in that particular rationale document, although much of
it is probably too verbose for inclusion.  I expect much of this will need to
be cut out.

The raw material used for this commit can be found here:
     http://www.gnu.org/licences/gpl3-final-rationale.pdf

As I pasted in this text, I added FIXME's sometimes where it seemed the text
might need work.  However, I was much more extensive in just pasting here, so
there's a big editing job now.  As mentioned in a previous commit, the whole
GPLv3 chapter is now completely disjoint with all this pasting.

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

  Copyright © 2007, Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted
  worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice is
  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.  I
also confirmed that relicensing permission on IRC with johnsu01 today.
 2014-03-19 18:06:31 -04:00
Free Software Foundation
1e928fdbb8 Relevant text from FSF's "GPLv3 Final Discussion Draft Rationale", 
as released on 2007-05-31.

I (Bradley M. Kuhn) went through FSF's "Third Discussion Draft Rationale",
and pasted in any sections that seemed useful to this tutorial.  There is a
lot of interesting material in that particular rationale document, although
much of it is probably too verbose for inclusion.  I expect much of this will
need to be cut out.

The raw material used for this commit can be found here:
     http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl3-dd4-guide.html
Specifically, a copy of the LaTeX sources are here:
     http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl3-dd4-rationale.tex

As I pasted in this text, I added FIXME's sometimes where it seemed the text
might need work.  However, I was much more extensive in just pasting here, so
there's a big editing job now.  As mentioned in a previous commit, the whole
GPLv3 chapter is now completely disjoint with all this pasting.

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

  Copyright © 2007, Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted
  worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice is
  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.  I
also confirmed that relicensing permission on IRC with johnsu01 today.
 2014-03-19 17:41:47 -04:00
Joshua Gay
f0a9d0a46c adding eamcs temporary files 2014-03-19 17:04:38 -04:00
Free Software Foundation
f4b4b9f85e Relevant text from FSF's "GPLv3 Third Discussion Draft Rationale", 
as released on 2007-03-28.

I (Bradley M. Kuhn) went through FSF's "Third Discussion Draft Rationale",
and pasted in any sections that seemed useful to this tutorial.  There is a
lot of interesting material in that particular rationale document, although
much of it is probably too verbose for inclusion.  I expect much of this will
need to be cut out.

The raw material used for this commit can be found here:
     http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl3-dd3-guide
Specifically, a copy of the LaTeX sources are here:
     http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl3-dd3-rationale.tex

As I pasted in this text, I added FIXME's sometimes where it seemed the text
might need work.  However, I was much more extensive in just pasting here, so
there's a big editing job now.  The whole GPLv3 chapter is now completely
disjoint with all this pasting.

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

  Copyright © 2007, Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted
  worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice is
  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.  I
also confirmed that relicensing permission on IRC with johnsu01 today.
 2014-03-19 16:45:37 -04:00
Free Software Foundation, Inc
ebe7610b2b Relevant text from FSF press summary circa 2007-03-28 
I (Bradley M. Kuhn) carefully went through some internal FSF files, and found
these in notes that were sent to journalists at the time of the release of
GPLv3 Discussion Draft 3.

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.  I also
confirmed that relicensing permission on IRC with johnsu01 today.
 2014-03-19 16:08:50 -04:00
Free Software Foundation, Inc
678e841079 Relevant text from FSF's "GPLv2 Discussion Draft 3 FAQ", 
as published circa 2007-03-28, (around the time of GPLv3 Third Discussion
Draft)

I (Bradley M. Kuhn) carefully went through FSF's "GPLv2 Discussion Draft 3
FAQ", which appears to have been published on Thursday 28 March 2007, and
merged in any relevant text that might be of use in this tutorial.

The raw material used for this commit can be found here:
    http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq

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 © 2007 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.  I
also confirmed that relicensing permission on IRC with johnsu01 today.
 2014-03-19 16:01:54 -04:00
Free Software Foundation, Inc
520451439f Relevant text from FSF's "GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft Rationale", as 
published circa late 2006-07, (around time of GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft)

I (Bradley M. Kuhn) carefully went through FSF's "DRM", which appears to have
been published on Thursday 27 July 2006, and merged in any relevant footnotes
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/gpl3-dd1to2-markup-rationale.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.  I
also confirmed that relicensing permission on IRC with johnsu01 today.
 2014-03-19 15:48:48 -04:00
Free Software Foundation, Inc
da7e0da128 Relevant text from FSF's "DRM" as published circa late 2006-07, 
(around time of GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft)

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

However, since the patent provisions changed some much over the drafting of
GPLv3, there was not much text useful to bring in on this one.

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/drm-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.  I
also confirmed that relicensing permission on IRC with johnsu01 today.
 2014-03-19 15:09:18 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
af63358d30 Minor typo and formatting fixes. 2014-03-19 13:39:22 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
87f0f9e787 Capitalization fix. 2014-03-19 13:38:21 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
e7ff8ce2af Make plurals agree. 2014-03-19 13:38:07 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
a7dbd07c89 USA is not the only US. 2014-03-19 13:37:24 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
cab83981f8 Merge 'refs/merge-requests/4' of gitorious.org:gpl-compliance-tools/tutorial 
into my local branch gitorious-merge-requests/004.

Fontana told me on IRC just now:
   I hereby release them under CC0. I will assign to FSF if desired.

We briefly discussed whether Red Hat (Fontana's employer) might hold
copyright, and Fontana said:
   Red Hat is hereby CC0ing it

Later he said this:
   I have concluded that Red Hat holds copyright here, but I have authority
   to declare my patches an Excluded Activity and thus Red Hat does not hold
   copyright.
 2014-03-19 13:18:01 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
1cf4f1749d Entire sentence should be parenthetical. 2014-03-19 13:13:39 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
70772b5f71 There are many other countries that are the "United States". 
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_%28disambiguation%29

As such, use "USA" to refer to the United States of America.

Obviously, it's not the only united states in America, but USA is at least
the official internationally recognized name.
 2014-03-19 13:12:50 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
52b3058faf This is a useful statement that Fontana added, but it should be a footnote. 2014-03-19 13:10:09 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
afac70708f Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/3' of gitorious.org:gpl-compliance-tools/tutorial 
into gitorious-merge-requests/003

Fontana told me on IRC just now:
   I hereby release them under CC0. I will assign to FSF if desired.

We briefly discussed whether Red Hat (Fontana's employer) might hold
copyright, and Fontana said:
   Red Hat is hereby CC0ing it
 2014-03-19 13:07:11 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
730c56d39a Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/2' of 
gitorious.org:gpl-compliance-tools/tutorial into gitorious-merge-requests/002

Fontana told me on IRC just now:
   I hereby release them under CC0. I will assign to FSF if desired.

We briefly discussed whether Red Hat (Fontana's employer) might hold
copyright, and Fontana said:
   Red Hat is hereby CC0ing it
 2014-03-19 13:00:48 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
4e6da6904b Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/1' of gitorious.org:gpl-compliance-tools/tutorial into gitorious-merge-requests/001 2014-03-19 12:58:02 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
e8a8778ae5 All uses of \S should really have a ~ to avoid bad line breaks. 2014-03-19 12:39:40 -04:00
Tony Sebro
57b7cc2403 Committed additional changes; still have more to do on implied patent license. 2014-03-19 12:38:36 -04:00
Tony Sebro
6d6d18f1e6 Updated a citation and fixed some language in implied license section. 2014-03-19 12:37:24 -04:00
Tony Sebro
f3585ce68d updated analysis. 2014-03-19 12:35:09 -04:00
Richard Fontana
a625e05c30 Some fixes for public domain section. 2014-03-19 12:33:21 -04:00
Richard Fontana
59eec91da7 Some edits to chapter 1, mostly stylistic and minor. 2014-03-19 12:22:32 -04:00
Tony Sebro
844bf4ba5b Updated analysis of derivative works. 2014-03-19 12:17:14 -04:00