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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 9 years ago 2014-11-13 18:02:45
bkuhn@ebb.org

Replace "enforcements" with "enforcement actions".

I think this sounds better. While "enforcement" is a noun and therefore
it seems it should be "pluralizable", "enforcements" wasn't in my
dictionary as a correctly spelled word, and that made me realize I'd
never heard "enforcements" used in a plural before, and it immediately
sounded weird. So, I changed it.

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 comply.  In 2003, the FSF formalized its efforts into the GPL Compliance
 Lab, increased the volume of enforcement, and built community coalitions
 to encourage copyright holders to together settle amicably with violators.
 Beginning in 2004, Harald Welte took a more organized public enforcement
 approach and launched \href{http://gpl-violations.org/}{gpl-violations.org}, a website and mailing
 list for collecting reports of GPL violations.  On the basis of these
-reports, Welte successfully pursued many enforcements in Europe, including
+reports, Welte successfully pursued many enforcement actions in Europe, including
 formal legal action.  Harald earns the permanent fame as the first copyright
 holder to bring legal action in a court regarding GPL compliance.
 In 2007, two copyright holders in BusyBox, in conjunction with the
 Software Freedom Conservancy (``Conservancy''), filed the first copyright infringement lawsuit
 based on a violation of the GPL\@ in the USA. While  lawsuits are of course
@@ ... / @@ -1284,13 +1284,13 @@ should ask: @@
 \item If we follow your recommended compliance procedures, will you
   formally indemnify us in case we are nonetheless found to be in
   violation of the GPL?
 \end{itemize}
-This last point is particularly important.  Many GPL enforcements are
+This last point is particularly important.  Many GPL enforcement actions are
 escalated because of petty finger-pointing between the distributor and its
 upstream.  In our experience, agreements regarding GPL compliance issues
 and procedures are rarely negotiated up front.  However, when they are,
 violations are resolved much more smoothly (at least from the point of
 view of the redistributor).

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