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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-19 17:00:48
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Fontana told me on IRC just now:
I hereby release them under CC0. I will assign to FSF if desired.

We briefly discussed whether Red Hat (Fontana's employer) might hold
copyright, and Fontana said:
Red Hat is hereby CC0ing it

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@@ ... / @@ -41,82 +41,82 @@ David ``Novalis'' Turner \\ @@
 Daniel B. Ravicher \\
 Tony Sebro \\
 John Sullivan
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 The copyright holders of \tutorialpartsplit{``Detailed Analysis of the GNU GPL and Related Licenses''}{this part} hereby grant the freedom to copy, modify,
 convey, Adapt, and/or redistribute this work under the terms of the Creative
 Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International License.  A copy of that
 license is available at
 \verb=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode=.  }
 \end{center}
 \bigskip
 \bigskip
 \tutorialpartsplit{This tutorial}{This part of the tutorial} gives a
 comprehensive explanation of the most popular Free Software copyright
 license, the GNU General Public License (``GNU GPL'', or sometimes just
 ``GPL'') -- both version 2 (``GPLv2'') and version 3 (``GPLv3'') -- and
 teaches lawyers, software developers, managers and business people how to use
 the GPL (and GPL'd software) successfully both as a community-building
-``Constitution'' for a software project, or to incorporate copylefted
+``Constitution'' for a software project, and to incorporate copylefted
 software into a new Free Software business and in existing, successful
 enterprises.
 To successfully benefit of from this part of the tutorial, readers should
-have a general familiarity with software development processes.  A vague
+have a general familiarity with software development processes.  A basic
 understanding of how copyright law applies to software is also helpful.  The
 tutorial is of most interest to lawyers, software developers and managers who
 run or advise software businesses that modify and/or redistribute software
 under terms of the GNU GPL (or who wish to do so in the future), and those
+under the terms of the GNU GPL (or who wish to do so in the future), and those
 who wish to make use of existing GPL'd software in their enterprise.
-Upon completion of this part of the tutorial, successful students can expect
+Upon completion of this part of the tutorial, successful readers can expect
 to have learned the following:
 \begin{itemize}
-  \item The freedom-defending purpose of each term of the GNU GPLv2 and GPLv3.
+  \item The freedom-defending purpose of various terms in the GNU GPLv2 and GPLv3.
   \item The differences between GPLv2 and GPLv3.
   \item The redistribution options under the GPLv2 and GPLv3.
   \item The obligations when modifying GPLv2'd or GPLv3'd software.
   \item How to build a plan for proper and successful compliance with the GPL.
   \item The business advantages that the GPL provides.
   \item The most common business models used in conjunction with the GPL.
   \item How existing GPL'd software can be used in existing enterprises.
-  \item The basics of the Lesser GPLv2.1 and Lesser GPLv3, and how they
+  \item The basics of LGPLv2.1 and LGPLv3, and how they
     differs from the GPLv2 and GPLv3, respectively.
   \item The basics to begin understanding the complexities regarding
     derivative and combined works of software.
 \end{itemize}
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 % END OF ABSTRACTS SECTION
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 % START OF DAY ONE COURSE
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \chapter{What Is Software Freedom?}
 Study of the GNU General Public License (herein, abbreviated as \defn{GNU
   GPL} or just \defn{GPL}) must begin by first considering the broader world
 of software freedom. The GPL was not created from a void, rather, it was
 created to embody and defend a set of principles that were set forth at the
 founding of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) -- the
 organization that upholds, defends and promotes the philosophy of software
 freedom. A prerequisite for understanding both of the popular versions of GPL
 (GPLv2 and GPLv3) and their terms and conditions is a basic understanding of
 the principles behind it.  The GPL family of licenses are unlike almost all
 other software licenses in that they are designed to defend and uphold these

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