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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
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
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
Bradley M. Kuhn
366854aaf1 Properly quote the & in C&CS. HT tmarble. 
<tmarble> note: might need to escape the & in C&CS  [12:05]
 2014-03-19 12:07:34 -04:00
Free Software Foundation, Inc
7090007b0d Relevant text from FSF's "Covenant Not to Assert" 
as published circa late 2006-07 (around time of GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft)

I (Bradley M. Kuhn) carefully went through FSF's "Covenant Not to Assert",
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/covenant-not-to-assert-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 12:06:39 -04:00
Richard Fontana
f6cfb851d6 Minor edits to prefatory material. 2014-03-19 11:43:43 -04:00
Free Software Foundation, Inc
290774c3e8 Relevant text from FSF's "Denationalization of Terminology" 
as published circa late 2006-07 (around time of GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft)

I (Bradley M. Kuhn) carefully went through FSF's "Denationalization of
Terminology", 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.

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/denationalization-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 11:34:42 -04:00
Free Software Foundation, Inc
7cd4b2d7f4 Relevant text from FSF's "Opinion on BitTorrent Propagation", 
as published circa late 2006-07 (around time of GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft)

I (Bradley M. Kuhn) carefully went through FSF's "Opinion on BitTorrent
Propagation", 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.

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/bittorrent-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 11:13:26 -04:00
Bradley M. Kuhn
458f741317 Add another FIXME 2014-03-19 11:04:03 -04:00
Free Software Foundation, Inc
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
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