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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-11-12 12:18:59
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Incorporate copyleft defn from copyleft.org site

I wrote a pretty good copyleft definition, originally based on the one
found on Wikipedia, for use on the front page of copyleft.org. Herein
it is integrated with the tutorial as well.

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 domain, because nearly all new work is done by proprietarization.
 A legal mechanism is needed to redress this problem. FSF was in fact
 originally created primarily as a legal entity to defend software freedom,
 and that work of defending software freedom is a substantial part of
 its work today. Specifically because of this ``embrace, proprietarize and
 extend'' cycle, FSF made a conscious choice to copyright its Free Software,
 and then license it under ``copyleft'' terms. Many, including the
 developers of the kernel named Linux, have chosen to follow this paradigm.
 \label{copyleft-definition}
 % FIXME-URGENT: integrate
 Copyleft is a strategy of utilizing copyright law to pursue the policy goal
 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
 \hyperref[GPLv3-full-text]{GNU General Public License (GPL)} and the Creative
 Commons Attribution Share Alike License (the latter of which is the license
 of this work itself).  Copyright holders of creative work can unilaterally
 implement these licenses for their own works to build communities that
 collaboratively share and improve those copylefted creative works.
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 Copyleft,
 which uses functional parts of copyright law to achieve an unusual result
 (legal protection for free sharing) forms the core legal principle of these
 licenses. It modifies, or ``hacks'' copyright law, which is usually employed to
 strengthen the rights of authors or publishers, to strengthen instead the
 rights of users.   %FIXME-URGENT: end
 Copyleft is a legal strategy and mechanism to defend, uphold and propagate software
 freedom. The basic technique of copyleft is as follows: copyright the
 software, license it under terms that give all the software freedoms, but
 use the copyright law controls to ensure that all who receive a copy of
 the software have equal rights and freedom. In essence, copyleft grants
 freedom, but forbids others to forbid that freedom to anyone else along

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 You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
 school, if any, to sign a ``copyright disclaimer'' for the library, if
 necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
 \begin{quote}
 Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program \\
 `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker. \\
 signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1990 \\
 Ty Coon, President of Vice
 \end{quote}
 \chapter{The GNU General Public License, version 3}
 \label{GPLv3-full-text}
 \begin{center}
 {\parindent 0in
 Version 3, 29 June 2007
 Copyright \copyright\  2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. \texttt{http://fsf.org/}
 \bigskip
 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
 license document, but changing it is not allowed.}

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