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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-20 21:29:51
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This change does the job that needs to be done to this ¶ for this tutorial.

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 While imposing technical barriers to modification is wrong regardless of
 circumstances, the areas where restricted devices are of the greatest
 practical concern today fall within the User Product definition. Most,
 if not all, technically-restricted devices running GPL-covered programs
 are consumer electronics devices, and we expect that to remain true in
 the near future. Moreover, the disparity in clout between the
 manufacturers and these users makes it difficult for the users to reject
 technical restrictions through their weak and unorganized market
 power. Even if limited to User Products, as defined in Draft 3, the
 provision still does the job that needs to be done. Therefore we have
 decided to limit the technical restrictions provisions to User Products
 in this draft.
 practical concern today fall within the User Product definition.  Most, if
 not all, technically-restricted devices running GPL-covered programs are
 consumer electronics devices, and that has remained true since GPLv3's
 release.  Moreover, the disparity in clout between the manufacturers and
 these users makes it difficult for the users to reject technical restrictions
 through their weak and unorganized market power.  Even limited to User
 Products, the provision addresses the fundamental problem. Therefore, the
 technical restrictions provisions to User Products.
 The core of the User Product definition is a subdefinition of ``consumer
 product'' taken verbatim from the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, a federal

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