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Richard Fontana

Modify sentence that oversimplifies notion of completeness of software
freedom. In reality the FSF (as chief guardians of what the definition
of free software is) and the larger Free Software community have
tolerated certain kinds of restrictions on software freedom. One
example, called out in my change to this sentence, is that of copyleft
requirements. To arch lax-permissive-license advocates copyleft
requirements may be an undue restriction on software freedom, but the
larger Free Software community considers copyleft (at least within
limits recognized by the FSF) to be a tolerable deviation from maximum
software freedom for a given user. In the case of copyleft, the
justification is that the constraints on that user allow software
freedom to be maximized among the larger set of present and future users.

# Copyleft and GPL Tutorial Materials

This repository contains various tutorial materials regarding the suite of GNU General
Public Licenses and copyleft (as applied to software).

The primary item of interest is an omnibus book on copyleft that is built
from the comprehensive-GPL-guide.tex file.

You can build this project with the following command:

    $ make

HTML output will be in the public_html directory and a PDF file will be in  comprehensive-gpl-guide.pdf.

You may need to first install texlive, tex4ht and a few other things.  On
Debian-based systems, this command may work as root:

    # aptitude install texlive-full make tex4ht

You may also
[browse the current version of the guide on copyleft.org](https://copyleft.org/guide/),
and [download a PDF of the Guide as well](http://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guide.pdf).

Note the
[canonical repository for this project is on gitorious](https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/source/master:).
Typically, copies of this repository on  sites other than gitorious are for informational and backup
purposes only.

## Contributing

Improvements of all kinds and manner are welcome.  Please review
[the instructions and details regarding making contributions](CONTRIBUTING.md)
for more information.