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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-21 01:04:31
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 \chapter{Background}
 Early GPL enforcement efforts began soon after the GPL was written by
 Richard Stallman in 1989, and consisted of informal community efforts,
+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
   proprietary.}  Over the next decade, the Free Software Foundation (FSF),
   proprietary.  RMS, in fact, handled this enforcement action personally and
   the Objective-C front-end is still part of upstream GCC today.}  Over the next decade, the Free Software Foundation (FSF),
 which holds copyrights in many GNU programs, was the only visible entity
 actively enforcing its GPL'd copyrights on behalf of the software freedom
 community.
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 confidentially and helped them to comply with the license.  Most
 violations were pursued this way until the early 2000's.
 By that time, Linux-based systems had become very common, particularly in
+By that time, Linux-based systems such as GNU/Linux and BusyBox/Linux had become very common, particularly in
 embedded devices such as wireless routers.  During this period, public
 ridicule of violators in the press and on Internet fora supplemented
 ongoing private enforcement and increased pressure on businesses to
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 approach and launched \verb0gpl-violations.org0, a website and mailing
 list for collecting reports of GPL violations.  On the basis of these
 reports, Welte successfully pursued many enforcements in Europe, including
 formal legal action.
 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

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