@@ -8,24 +8,24 @@ of fostering and encouraging the equal and inalienable right to copy, share,
modify and improve creative works of authorship. Copyleft (as a general
term) describes any method that utilizes the copyright system to achieve the
aforementioned goal. Copyleft as a concept is usually implemented in the
details of a specific copyright license, such as the GNU
[General Public License (GPL)](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) and the
[Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
Copyright holders of creative work can unilaterally implement these licenses
Copyright holders of creative works can unilaterally choose these licenses
for their own works to build communities that collaboratively share and
improve those copylefted creative works.
## What is copyleft.org?
copyleft.org is a collaborative project to create and disseminate useful
information, tutorial material, and new policy ideas regarding all forms of
copyleft licensing.
This site itself is licensed under a copyleft license, and has received
contributions from experts around the world. Thus, copyleft.org is the
premier "meta-project" of copyleft: it's useful copylefted information all
about copyleft itself!
### The Copyleft Guide and Tutorial
The primary project currently on this site is a tutorial book entitled
@@ -95,13 +95,13 @@ helpful.) Here are the primary ones:
* [copyleft.guide](http://copyleft.guide) points to the guide itself.
* [compliance.guide](http://compliance.guide) points to the *GPL Compliance Guide* section of the full Guide.
* [gpl.guide](http://gpl.guide) points to the *Detailed Analysis of the GNU GPL and Related Licenses* section of the full Guide.
As time goes on, we'll add convenience URLs to refer to specific parts of the
guide, which makes it easy to refer people to portions of the Guide. Here
are a the ones that exist so far:
are the ones that exist so far:
* [compliance.guide/pristine](http://compliance.guide/pristine) points to
the "pristine example", the chapter entitled *ThinkPenguin Wireless Router: Excellent CCS*.
* [compliance.guide/offer-for-source](http://compliance.guide/offer-for-source) points to
the section regarding using the offer for source provisions in GPLv3§6(c) and/or GPLv2§3(b).
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ are a the ones that exist so far:
#### More on "What Is Copyleft?"
Here are a few external resources to read regarding the general concept of copyleft:
* [Richard M. Stallman's essay on copyleft at gnu.org](https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/)
* [The Wikipedia entry on Copyleft](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft)
(The definition of copyleft at the top of this page is modified version
(The definition of copyleft at the top of this page is a modified version
of the first paragraph of that Wikipedia entry).