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Bradley M. Kuhn 2f2e5f9e4c Rework over-abundant use of term "derivative work" 
The older portions of this tutorial tended to favor the term "derivative
work", since that was the popular catch-all term used at the time the
text was written.

However, as the newer text regarding GPLv3 now states, FSF abandoned the
use of the term "derivative work" in the text of GPLv3 itself, for
various reasons we already discuss in the tutorial.

Therefore, the tutorial text itself should likely not rely so heavily on
the phrase "derivative work" throughout.  This change herein reworks a
number of places where "derivative work" was used in the tutorial and
replaced it with other terms.

Ultimately, some word-smithing happened as part of the process of doing
this patch.
2014-10-15 22:14:45 -04:00
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README.md

Copyleft and GPL Tutorial Materials

This repository contains various tutorial materials regarding the suite of GNU General Public Licenses and copyleft (as applied to software).

The primary item of interest is an omnibus book on copyleft that is built from the comprehensive-GPL-guide.tex file.

You can likely build a PDF file from:

$ pdflatex comprehensive-gpl-guide.tex && pdflatex comprehensive-gpl-guide.tex && pdflatex comprehensive-gpl-guide.tex

You can also download a prebuilt PDF file.

Note the canonical repository for this project is on gitorious. Copies of this repository on other sites is for informational and backup purposes only.

Contributing

Patches to this project are welcome. Please submit a merge request on Gitorious. If you cannot use that, you can email patches directly to Bradley. You can find his email address in the commit logs.