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Martin Michlmayr (tbm) - 10 years ago 2014-04-24 23:12:21
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 formal legal action.  Harald earns the permanent fame as the first copyright
-holder to bring legal action in a Court regarding GPL compliance.
+holder to bring legal action in a court regarding GPL compliance.
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 are resolved privately via
-cooperative communications with violators.  As both FSF and Conservancy has worked to bring
+cooperative communications with violators.  As both FSF and Conservancy have worked to bring
 individual companies into compliance, both organizations have encountered numerous
@@ ... / @@ -106,3 +106,3 @@ important requirements from the GPL. These requirements are @@
 carefully designed to uphold certain values and standards of the software
-freedom community.  While the GPL's requirements may appear initially
+freedom community.  While the GPL's requirements may initially appear
 counter-intuitive to those more familiar with proprietary software
@@ ... / @@ -157,3 +157,3 @@ creative expression, no copyleft provisions are invoked. @@
 Admittedly, a tiny
-minority of situations which lie outside these two categories, and thus
 minority of situations lie outside these two categories, and thus
 do involve close questions about derivative and combined works.  Those
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 into the product.  Further, make sure developers use a revision control
-system (such as Git or Mercurial), and have
 system (such as Git or Mercurial), and
 store the upstream versions of all software in a ``vendor branch'' or
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 usually recommend the GPL'd
-\href{http://fossology.org/}{Fossology system}, which analyzes a
+\href{http://fossology.org/}{FOSSology system}, which analyzes a
 source code base and produces a list of Free Software licenses that may apply to
-the code.  Fossology can help you build a catalog of the sources you have
+the code.  FOSSology can help you build a catalog of the sources you have
 already used to build your product.  You can then expand that into a more
@@ ... / @@ -256,3 +256,3 @@ developers are using revision control systems properly. @@
 \item Have developers mark or ``tag'' the full source tree corresponding to
   builds distributed to customers
+  builds distributed to customers.
@@ ... / @@ -512,3 +512,3 @@ distribution. @@
 Finally, it is unacceptable to use option (b) merely because you do not have
-Corresponding Source ready.  We find that some companies chose this option
+Corresponding Source ready.  We find that some companies choose this option
 because writing an offer is easy, but producing a source distribution as
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 with your product but cannot actually deliver \emph{immediately} on that
-offer when your customers receive it, you should expect an enforcement
+offer when your customers request it, you should expect an enforcement
 action.
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 only to noncommercial use.  These options are not available to businesses
-distributing GPL'd software.  Consequently, companies who redistribute
+distributing GPL'd software.  Consequently, companies that redistribute
 software packaged for them by an upstream vendor cannot merely pass along
@@ ... / @@ -755,3 +755,3 @@ with the license and respect freedom. @@
 However, other entities who do not share the full ethos of software freedom
 as institutionalized by FSF pursue GPL violations differently.  Oracle, a
+as institutionalized by FSF and Conservancy pursue GPL violations differently.  Oracle, a
 company that produces the GPL'd MySQL database, upon discovering GPL
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 a fee.  While this practice is not one that FSF nor Conservancy would ever
-consider undertaking or even endorsing, it is a legally way for copyright
+consider undertaking or even endorsing, it is a legal way for copyright
 holders to proceed.
@@ ... / @@ -763,9 +763,9 @@ holders to proceed. @@
 Generally, GPL enforcers come in two varieties.  First, there are
-Conservancy, FSF, and other ``community enforcers'', who primary seek the
+Conservancy, FSF, and other ``community enforcers'', who primarily seek the
 policy goals of GPL (software freedom), and see financial compensation as
 ultimately secondary to those goals.  Second, there are ``for-profit
-enforcers'' who use the GPL as a either a crippleware license, or sneakily
+enforcers'' who use the GPL either as a crippleware license, or sneakily
 induce infringement merely to gain proprietary licensing revenue.
-Note that the latter model \textit{only} works for companies who hold 100\% of
+Note that the latter model \textit{only} works for companies that hold 100\% of
 the copyrights in the infringed work.  As such, multi-copyright-held works
@@ ... / @@ -967,3 +967,3 @@ should ask: @@
 \item From which upstream vendors, be they companies or individuals, did
-  \emph{you} receive your software from before distributing it to us?
   \emph{you} receive your software before distributing it to us?
@@ ... / @@ -1064,3 +1064,3 @@ ready-made for their products. @@
 % LocalWords:  someone's downloadable subdirectory subdirectories filesystem
-% LocalWords:  roadmap README upstream's Ravicher's Fossology readme CDs iPhone
+% LocalWords:  roadmap README upstream's Ravicher's FOSSology readme CDs iPhone
 % LocalWords:  makefiles violator's

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 In conjunction with \S 4's termination of violators' rights, there is
-one final industry fact added to the mix: rarely, does one engage in a
 one final industry fact added to the mix: rarely does one engage in a
 single, solitary act of copying, distributing or modifying software.
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 \item {\bf Enforcement should not begin until the evidence is confirmed.}
-  Most companies who distribute GPL'd software do so in compliance, and at
+  Most companies that distribute GPL'd software do so in compliance, and at
   times, violation reports are mistaken. Even with extensive efforts in
@@ ... / @@ -638,3 +638,3 @@ did so, and the violation was resolved. @@
   No external argument for noncompliance can hold weight if the work as
   whole is indeed a derivative work of a GPL'd program.
+  a whole is indeed a derivative work of a GPL'd program.

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