diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex index fdcc80097447db0773856c416fe49d334db9e616..d367216370d466f20522d4f01d234b3dc6a1183d 100644 --- a/gpl-lgpl.tex +++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex @@ -51,46 +51,48 @@ license is available at \bigskip This part of the tutorial gives a comprehensive explanation of the most -popular Free Software copyright license, the GNU General Public License (GNU -GPL) -- both version 2 and version 3 -- and teaches lawyers, software -developers, managers and business people how to use the GPL (and GPL'd -software) successfully in a new Free Software business and in existing, -successful enterprises. +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 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 -understanding of how copyright law applies to software is also helpful. The +have a general familiarity with software development processes. A vague +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 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 who wish to -make use of existing GPL'd software in their enterprise. +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 +who wish to make use of existing GPL'd software in their enterprise. -Upon completion of the tutorial, successful students can expect to have -learned the following: +Upon completion of this part of the tutorial, successful students 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 each term of 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 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 How to build a plan for proper and successful compliance with the GPL. - \item The business advantages that the GPL provides + \item The business advantages that the GPL provides. - \item The most common business models used in conjunction with the GPL + \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 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 differs from the GPLv2 and GPLv3, respectively. - \item How best to understand the complexities regarding derivative - works of software + \item The basics to begin understanding the complexities regarding + derivative and combined works of software. \end{itemize} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%