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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-18 22:43:21
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We now have a chapter earlier that discusses this in more detail,
just reference that instead of this other text that was here.

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 law. The GPL, in turn, serves as the legal scaffolding that permits the
 creation of this vibrant commercial and noncommercial Free Software
 economy.
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 \chapter{A Tale of Two Copyleft Licenses}
 \label{tale-of-two-copylefts}
 While determining the proper methodology and criteria to yield an accurate
 count remains difficult, the GPL is generally considered one of the most
 widely used Free Software licenses.  For most of its history --- for 16 years
 from June 1991 to June 2007 --- there was really only one version of the GPL,
 version 2.
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 GPLv2~\S9 expresses this.  While the stewardship of the copyrights on the body
 of GPL'd software around the world is shared among thousands of
 individuals and organizations, the license itself needs a single steward.
 Forking of the code is often regrettable but basically innocuous.  Forking
 of licensing is disastrous.
 FSF has only released two versions of GPL --- in 1989 and 1991. GPL
 version 3 is under current internal drafting. FSF's plan is to have a
 long and engaging comment period. The goal of GPL is to defend freedom, and
 a gigantic community depends on that freedom now. FSF hopes to take all
 stakeholders' opinions under advisement.
 (Chapter~\ref{tale-of-two-copylefts} discusses more about the various
 versions of GPL.)
 \section{GPLv2~\S10: Relicensing Permitted}
 \label{GPLv2s10}
 GPLv2~\S10 reminds the licensee of what is already implied by the nature of
 copyright law. Namely, the copyright holder of a particular software

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