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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-21 01:06:48
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 formal legal action.  Harald earns the permanent fame as the first copyright
 holder to bring legal action in a Court regarding GPL compliance.
 In 2007, the SFLC filed the first U.S.~copyright infringement lawsuit
 based on a violation of the GPL\@. While the lawsuits filed by SFLC on
 behalf of its clients have been quite public, SFLC resolves the vast
 majority of enforcement actions privately via
 cooperative communications with violators.  As we have worked to bring
 individual companies into compliance, we have encountered numerous
 In 2007, two copyright holders in BusyBox, in conjunction with the
 Software Freedom Conservancy (``Conservancy''), filed the first copyright infringement lawsuit
 based on a violation of the GPL\@ in the USA. While  lawsuits are of course
 quite public, the vast majority of Conservancy's enforcement actions
 are resolved privately via
 cooperative communications with violators.  As both FSF and Conservancy has worked to bring
 individual companies into compliance, both organizations have encountered numerous
 violations resulting from preventable problems such as inadequate
 attention to licensing of upstream software, misconceptions about the
 GPL's terms, and poor communication between software developers and their
-management.  In this document, we highlight these problems and describe
+management.  This document highlights these problems and describe
 best practices to encourage corporate Free Software users to reevaluate their
 approach to GPL'd software and avoid future violations.

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