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% Brief Introduction to the GNU General Public License % Bradley M. Kuhn % Monday 24 March 2014
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My Affiliations
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Formerly had John's job, Executive Director of FSF, years ago.
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Currently: on Board of Directors of FSF.
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President of Software Freedom Conservancy.
How These Orgs Relate to GPL?
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FSF
- Authors & stewards of the GPL.
- Holder of copyrights on many key GNU programs …
- … and therefore enforcers of those copyrights.
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Software Freedom Conservancy
- Adviser on legal issues of copyright, etc. to Free Software projects.
- Holder of some copyrights on its member projects.
- Enforcer of GPL on behalf of many copyright holders in:
- BusyBox, Samba, Mercurial, and the kernel named Linux.