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This change perhaps is somewhat controversial, but reflects honest
reality of this history of additional requirements on GPL.  The
additional requirements that GPLv3 permits mostly represent historically
known situations where GPLv2 permitted license compatibility with Free
Software licenses containing such requirements.

Orthodox compatibility theory demands that such additional requirements
have explicit codification in a copyleft license, which hints at why
GPLv3 needed to include this section.

However, historical copyright holder toleration of these sorts of
requirements placed on GPLv2 works is well-documented, and failure to
mention it here is a disservice to the reader.
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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 build this project with the following command:

$ make

HTML output will be in the public_html directory and a PDF file will be in comprehensive-gpl-guide.pdf.

You may need to first install texlive, tex4ht and a few other things. On Debian-based systems, this command may work as root:

# aptitude install texlive-full make tex4ht

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.