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. Its primary project is currently a [comprehensive tutorial and guide](/guide/), which describes the policy motivations for copyleft exists, presents a detailed analysis of the text of various copyleft licenses, and gives examples and case studies of copyleft compliance situations. ### The Copyleft Guide and Tutorial The primary project currently on this site is the [tutorial book entitled *Copyleft and the GNU General Public License: A Comprehensive Guide and Tutorial*](/guide/). ### Getting Involved There are various ways to get involved with this project. The primary copyleft.org website is a wiki, and we welcome additional information. Please edit this wiki with more information about copyleft. However, the primary project available on this site is the aforementioned guide and tutorial about GPL and other copyleft concepts. We seek contributors to get involved in the following ways: #### Proposing Improvements to the Guide [Merge requests on copyleft.org's gitorious site](https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/merge_requests) to the Guide are most welcome. If you're looking for something to fix, just grep the *.tex files for "FIXME" and you'll find plenty. Many of them are simple and easy to do. Some of them are writing, and some of them are formatting-related. #### Joining Mailing Lists * Subscribe to [our low-traffic, announcements-only mailing list](https://lists.copyleft.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce) * Join discussion on our [primary mailing list, called "discuss"](https://lists.copyleft.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss). #### IRC Discussion The coypleft.org [IRC channel is #copyleft on irc.freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net/#copyleft). The [IRC logs are public here on this site](/irclogs/). ### Who Contributes to copyleft.org? This site is a joint project of [Software Freedom Conservancy](https://sfconservancy.org) and [the Free Software Foundation](https://fsf.org). The editor-in-chief of [the guide](/guide/) is [Bradley M. Kuhn](http://ebb.org/bkuhn). The [recent changes page](/recentchanges) shows who has contributed to the wiki, and you can see the [Git commit log on the tutorial](https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/commits/) to see who has contributed to it. ### Offsite Resources #### What Is Copyleft? Here are a few sources to read generally what copyleft is: * [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)