This course is of most interest to lawyers who have clients or

employers that deal with Free Software on a regular basis. However,

technical managers and executives whose businesses use or distribute

Free Software will also find the course very helpful.

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These course materials are merely a summary of the highlights of the

course presented. Please be aware that during the actual GPL course, class

discussion supplements this printed curriculum. Simply reading it is

not equivalent to attending the course.

\chapter{Overview of Community Enforcement}

The GPL is a Free Software license with legal teeth. Unlike licenses like

the X11-style or various BSD licenses, the GPL (and by extension, the LGPL) is

designed to defend as well as grant freedom. We saw in the last course

that the GPL uses copyright law as a mechanism to grant all the key freedoms

essential in Free Software, but also to ensure that those freedoms

propagate throughout the distribution chain of the software.

\section{Termination Begins Enforcement}