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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 6 years ago 2018-09-26 16:30:21
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Additional connecting text for irrevocability discussion.

A forward reference is added to connect to the irrevocability section, and
one transition sentence added in the irrevocability section itself, since
it's another "digression" from the walk-through of GPLv2 in these sections.

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 \begin{tabbing}
 Copyright \= \copyright{} 2003--2005, 2008, 2014--2015, 2018 \hspace{1.mm} \=  \kill
 Copyright \> \copyright{} 2018 \>  Chestek Legal. \\
 Copyright \> \copyright{} 2003--2005, 2008, 2014--2015 \>  Bradley M. Kuhn. \\
+Copyright \> \copyright{} 2003--2005, 2008, 2014--2015, 2018 \>  Bradley M. Kuhn. \\
 Copyright \> \copyright{} 2014--2015 \>  Anthony K. Sebro, Jr. \\
 Copyright \= \copyright{} 2014 \> Denver Gingerich. \\
 Copyright \= \copyright{} 2003--2007, 2014 \>  Free Software Foundation, Inc. \\
 Copyright \> \copyright{} 2008, 2014 \>  Software Freedom Law Center. \\
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 \label{GPLv2s4}
 GPLv2~\S4 is GPLv2's termination clause.  Upon first examination, it seems
 strange that a license with the goal of defending users' and programmers'
 freedoms for perpetuity in an irrevocable way would have such a clause.
 However, upon further examination, the difference between irrevocability
 and this termination clause becomes clear.
 and this termination clause becomes clear. (See~\ref{gplv2-irrevocable} for
 expanded discussion of GPLv2 irrevocability.)
 The GPL is irrevocable in the sense that once a copyright holder grants
 rights for someone to copy, modify and redistribute the software under terms
 of the GPL, they cannot later revoke that grant.  Since the GPL has no
 provision allowing the copyright holder to take such a prerogative, the
 license is granted as long as the copyright remains in effect.\footnote{In
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   remaining compliance issue is ``you lost copyright permission due to
   GPLv2~\S4''.  Therefore, the heated debates, which have raged between
   Jaeger and almost everyone else in the copyleft community for nearly a
   decade, regard an almost moot and wholly esoteric legal detail.}.
 \section{GPLv2 Irrevocability}
 \label{gplv2-irrevocable}
 This section digresses briefly to examine the manner in which GPLv2\S\S~4--6
 interact together to assure that the license grant is irrevocable.
 There are two legal theories why a contributor cannot terminate their license
 grant. First is an argument that the text of the GPL prevents it; second is
 that a contributor would be estopped from succeeding on an infringement claim
 for continued use of the code even if it wasn't removed.
 \subsection{The text of the GPLv2}

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