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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-24 10:30:08
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Add GPLv3 definitions and slide explaining binaries

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 this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
 entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
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 Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
 your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
 exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
 collective works based on the Program.
 </p>
 </span>
 # GPLv3 &sect;0 &para;1-5
 <span class="fitonslide">
 <p>
   "Copyright" also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds of
 works, such as semiconductor masks.
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 <br/>
   "The Program" refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this
 License.  Each licensee is addressed as "you".  "Licensees" and
 "recipients" may be individuals or organizations.
 <br/>
 <br/>
 To "modify" a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work
 in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an
 exact copy.  The resulting work is called a "modified version" of the
 earlier work or a work "based on" the earlier work.
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   A "covered work" means either the unmodified Program or a work based
 on the Program.
 </p>
 # Binaries (i.e., Object Code) are Modifications
 + Software that the computer understands is different than software humans
   read.
 + There is often a process required to modify (and/or translate) the software
   from human-readable
       + This process can be done ahead of time.
 + Separation of source and binary was the first way proprietary software
   companies discovered to subjugate users.
       + GPL uses the fact that binaries are modifications (which are often
         distribution) to prevent that subjugation.

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