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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
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
Bradley M. Kuhn
3a751d848b Add reference for Samba history. 2014-03-15 18:41:26 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
325fe11b18 Two spaces on sentences. ;) 2014-03-15 18:41:07 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
9c9c822951 Rework introduction to this section. 2014-03-15 17:44:06 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
79e474e4d1 Add the word "mechanism" to the definition of copyleft, 
and label where copyleft is defined.
 2014-03-15 17:34:31 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
f83638ca1d Small wordsmith. 2014-03-15 17:23:51 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
0e0d00163d Fix typo. 2014-03-15 17:22:18 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
991960d5eb Add text about moral rights. 2014-03-15 17:21:37 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
3215d133ac Summarize this section appropriately. 2014-03-15 17:01:59 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
d9bdf4e844 Mention contractual controls from EULAs. 2014-03-15 16:43:34 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
c6521ae303 Note DMCA restrictions and how it relates to DRM. 2014-03-15 16:43:19 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
b15c4c2a24 Begin section on non-copyright issues, focusing first on patents. 2014-03-15 16:30:45 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
b2fadd383c Began section on non USA copyright regimes. 2014-03-15 16:01:41 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
d775398748 Rework public domain section, 
including cross referencing to new sections to be written,
and handling the FIXME.
 2014-03-15 16:01:01 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
f3bfafe8a9 Properly reference Title 17 of USC. 2014-03-15 15:52:29 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
05a6cb7e52 typo fix. 2014-03-15 15:51:55 -04:00
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