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This section, fit in just after the detailed discussion of GPLv2 Section 6, explains in futher detail various arguments for why the GPLv2 is irrevocable.
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% * I have started using \hyperref[LABEL]{text} extensively, which seems
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% to work great in the PDF and HTML versions, but in the Postscript
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% GPLv2}{(see section~\ref*{GPLv2s3} for more information)}
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% FIXME: s/GPL enforcers/COGEOs/g
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% (the term coined later but not used throughout) This can't be done
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% by rote, since it may not be appropriate everywhere and shouldn't be
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% used *before* it's coined in the early portions of
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% compliance-guide.tex (and it's probably difficult to coin it earlier
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% anyway). BTW, I admit COGEOs isn't the best acronym, but I started
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% with ``Community Enforcement Organizations'', which makes CEO, which
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% is worse. :) My other opting was COEO, which seemed too close to
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% CEO. Suggestions welcome.
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\providecommand{\hrefnofollow}[2]{\href{#1}{#2}}
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\hypersetup{pdfinfo={Title={Copyleft and the GNU General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide}}}
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\begin{document}
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\pagestyle{plain}
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\pagenumbering{roman}
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\frontmatter
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\begin{titlepage}
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\begin{center}
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{\Huge
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{\sc Copyleft and the \\
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GNU General Public License:
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\vspace{.25in}
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A Comprehensive Tutorial \\
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\vspace{.1in}
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and Guide
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}}
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\vfill
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{\parindent 0in
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\begin{tabbing}
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Copyright \= \copyright{} 2003--2005, 2008, 2014--2015, 2018 \hspace{1.mm} \= \kill
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Copyright \> \copyright{} 2018 \> Chestek Legal. \\
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Copyright \> \copyright{} 2003--2005, 2008, 2014--2015 \> Bradley M. Kuhn. \\
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Copyright \> \copyright{} 2014--2015 \> Anthony K. Sebro, Jr. \\
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Copyright \= \copyright{} 2014 \> Denver Gingerich. \\
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Copyright \= \copyright{} 2003--2007, 2014 \> Free Software Foundation, Inc. \\
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Copyright \> \copyright{} 2008, 2014 \> Software Freedom Law Center. \\
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\end{tabbing}
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\vspace{.3in}
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The copyright holders grant the freedom to copy, modify, convey,
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adapt, and/or redistribute this work (except
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Appendices~\ref{GPLv2-full-text}--\ref{AGPLv3-full-text}) under the terms of the Creative Commons
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Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International License. A copy of that license is
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available at \url{https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode}.
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Appendices~\ref{GPLv2-full-text}--\ref{AGPLv3-full-text} include copies of the texts of various licenses published
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by the FSF, and they are all licensed under the license, ``Everyone is permitted
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to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing
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it is not allowed.''. However, those who seek to make modified versions of
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those licenses should note the
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\href{https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL}{explanation given in the GPL FAQ}.
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\vfill
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As a public, collaborative project, this Guide is primarily composed of the
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many contributions received via its
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\href{https://k.copyleft.org/guide/files/master/CONTRIBUTING.md}{public
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contribution process}. Please
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\href{https://k.copyleft.org/guide/changelog/master/}{review its
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Git logs} for full documentation of all contributions, and
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Appendix~\ref{third-party-citation-list}
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contains a list of third-party works from which some material herein was
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adapted.
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The most recent version is
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available online at \url{https://copyleft.org/guide/}. Patches
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are indeed welcome to this material. Sources can be found in the Git
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repository at \url{https://k.copyleft.org/guide/}.
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}
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\end{center}
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\end{titlepage}
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\tableofcontents
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\chapter{Preface}
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This tutorial is the culmination of nearly a decade of studying and writing
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about software freedom licensing and the GPL\@. Each part of this tutorial
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is a course unto itself, educating the reader on a myriad of topics from the
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deep details of the GPLv2 and GPLv3, common business models in the copyleft
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licensing area (both the friendly and unfriendly kind), best practices for
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compliance with the GPL, for engineers, managers, and lawyers, as well as
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real-world case studies of GPL enforcement matters.
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It is unlikely that all the information herein is necessary to learn all at
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once, and therefore this tutorial likely serves best as a reference book.
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The material herein has been used as the basis for numerous live tutorials
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and discussion groups since 2002, and the materials have been periodically
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updated. They likely stand on their own as excellent reference material.
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However, if you are reading these course materials without attending a live
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tutorial session, please note that this material is merely a summary of the
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highlights of the various CLE and other tutorial courses based on this
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material. Please be aware that during the actual courses, class discussion
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and presentation supplements this printed curriculum. Simply reading this
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material is \textbf{not equivalent} to attending a course.
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\mainmatter
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% FIXME: We need an Introduction. I think ideally it goes here, before Part
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% I. The introduction should cover initially:
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% * Why we cover the topics in the order that we do, in particular, why
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% we discuss all GPLv2 before mentioning GPLv3 (i.e., explain why we
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% take a diachronic approach to study of GPL).
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%
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% * It should briefly discuss Free Culture / Software Freedom stuff.
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% Maybe some early material currently living in gpl-lgpl.tex should move
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% to the introduction, maybe not. The goal is to prepare for the
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% moment when we can merge in material about CC-BY-SA.
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\input{gpl-lgpl}
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\input{compliance-guide}
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\input{enforcement-case-studies}
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\appendix
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\part{Appendices}
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\input{third-party-citations}
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\input{license-texts}
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\end{document}
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