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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-21 01:26:56
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 Simple, engineering-oriented rules help provide a stable foundation for
-free software integration.  Ask your software developers to send an email to a
+Free Software integration.  For example, simply ask your software developers to send an email to a
 standard place describing each new Free Software component they add to the system,
 and have them include a brief description of how they will incorporate it
 into the product.  Make sure they use a revision control system, and have
 into the product.  Further, make sure developers use a revision control
 system (such as Git or Mercurial), and have
 store the upstream versions of all software in a ``vendor branch'' or
 similar mechanism, whereby they can easily track and find the main version
-of the software and local changes made.
+of the software and, separately, any local changes.
 Such procedures are best instituted at your project's launch.  Once a
 chaotic and poorly-sourced development process has begun, the challenges
 of determining and cataloging the presence of GPL'd components is
 difficult.  If you are in that situation, we recommend the
 Such procedures are best instituted at your project's launch.  Once
 chaotic and poorly-sourced development processes begin, cataloging the
 presence of GPL'd components  becomes challenging.
 Such a situation often requires use of a tool to ``catch up'' your knowledge
 about what software your product includes.  Most commonly, companies choose
 some software licensing scanning tool to inspect the codebase.  However,
 there are few tools that are themselves Free Software.  Thus, GPL enforcers
 usually recommend the GPL'd
 \href{http://fossology.org/}{Fossology system}, which analyzes a
-source-code base and produces a list of Free Software licenses that may apply to
+source code base and produces a list of Free Software licenses that may apply to
 the code.  Fossology can help you build a catalog of the sources you have
 already used to build your product.  You can then expand that into a more
 structured inventory and process.

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