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 \chapter{Background}
 
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-Copyright law grants exclusive rights to authors. The ``preclusive'' use of
-copyleft to protect users’ rights still leaves the authors, as copyright
-holders, or their agents in the sole position of enforcers or protectors of
-their users’ rights. Actions for copyright infringement are the ultimate
-legal mechanism for enforcement, and copyright law allows only a copyright
-holder or her agent to bring an action for infringement. There also exist
-community efforts at compliance that help copyright holders in enforcement of
-their rights, but only the copyright holders or their legal representatives
-can actually initiate enforcement proceedings in the legal system.
-
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-Early GPL enforcement efforts began soon after the GPL was written by
+Copyright law grants exclusive rights to authors.  Authors who chose copyleft
+seek to protect the freedom of users and developers to copy, share, modify
+and redistribute the software.  However, copyleft is ultimately implemented
+through copyright, and the GPL is primarily and by default a copyright
+license.  (See \S~\ref{explaining-copyright} for more about the interaction
+between copyright and copyleft.)  Copyright law grants an unnatural exclusive
+control to copyright holders regarding copyright-controlled permissions
+related to the work.  Therefore, copyright holders (or their agents) are the
+ultimately the sole authorities to enforce copyleft and protect the rights of
+users.  Actions for copyright infringement are the ultimate legal mechanism
+for enforcement.  Therefore, copyright holders, or collaborative groups of
+copyright holders, have historically been the actors in GPL enforcement.
+
+The earliest of these efforts began soon after the GPL was written by
 Richard M.~Stallman (RMS) in 1989, and consisted of informal community efforts,
 often in public Usenet discussions.\footnote{One example is the public
   outcry over NeXT's attempt to make the Objective-C front-end to GCC
