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Richard Fontana - 9 years ago 2014-12-21 01:04:56
fontana@sharpeleven.org
"GNU project" -> "GNU Project".
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@@ -135,13 +135,13 @@ to have learned the following:
 
\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 in a vacuum. 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
 
founding of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) -- the
 
preeminent organization that upholds, defends and promotes the philosophy of software
 
freedom. A prerequisite for understanding both of the popular versions
 
of the GPL
 
(GPLv2 and GPLv3) and their terms and conditions is a basic understanding of
 
the principles behind them.  The GPL family of licenses are unlike nearly all
 
other software licenses in that they are designed to defend and uphold these
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@@ -828,15 +828,15 @@ then build new things based on that software) can restrict the software and
 
distribute further.
 

	
 
The GNU's Not Unix (``GNU'') project, which Richard M.~Stallman (``RMS'')
 
founded in 1984 to make a complete Unix-compatible operating system
 
implementation that assured software freedom for all.  However, RMS saw that
 
using a license that gave but did not assure software freedom would be
 
counter to the goals of the GNU project.  RMS invented ``copyleft'' as an
 
counter to the goals of the GNU Project.  RMS invented ``copyleft'' as an
 
answer to that problem, and began using various copyleft licenses for the
 
early GNU project programs.\footnote{RMS writes more fully about this topic in
 
early GNU Project programs.\footnote{RMS writes more fully about this topic in
 
  his essay entitled simply
 
  \href{http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html}{\textit{The GNU Project}}.
 
    For those who want to hear the story in his own voice,
 
    \href{http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/}{speech recordings} of his talk,
 
    \textit{The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System}
 
    are also widely available}
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