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  the license}.  Encouragement of users to improve and
 
  make their devices better is one of ThinkPenguin's commercial differentiators.  Copyleft advocates
 
  that other companies have undervalued the large and lucrative
 
  market of
 
  users who seek hackable devices.  By going beyond the
 
  mere minimal requirements of GPL, companies can immediately reap the
 
  benefits in that target market.
 

	
 
  \item Community-oriented enforcement organizations do not play ``gotcha''\footnote{For lack of a better
 
    phrase.} with distributors regarding GPL
 
    violations.  The goal in the GPL enforcement process is to achieve
 
    compliance and correct mistakes and annoyances.  Such organizations
 
    therefore take an ``innocent until proven guilty $\rightarrow$ guilty
 
    therefore take an ``innocent until proven guilty $\rightarrow$ assume guilty
 
    due to honest error rather than malicious action '' approach.  The goal
 
    is compliance (in direct contrast with
 
    the \hyperref[Proprietary Relicensing]{discussion in \S~\ref*{Proprietary Relicensing} about the
 
      proprietary relicensing} business model).
 
    
 
\end{enumerate}
 

	
 
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\chapter{Bortez: Modified GCC SDK}
 

	
 
In our first case study, we will consider Bortez, a company that
 
produces software and hardware toolkits to assist OEM vendors, makers
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