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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 9 years ago 2014-11-12 16:48:12
bkuhn@ebb.org
Edit pasted automatic downstream license text.

This pasted text was quite useful and well-written. I've incorporated
it fully, although it needed some copy edit work and additional
material.
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@@ -2270,28 +2270,34 @@ In short, GPLv2~\S6 says that your license for the software is your one and
 
only copyright license allowing you to copy, modify and distribute the
 
software.
 

	
 
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%   Also, link to GPLv3 section
 

	
 
This is GPLv2’s ``automatic downstream licensing'' provision. Each time you
 
GPLv2~\S6 is GPLv2’s ``automatic downstream licensing''
 
provision\footnote{This section was substantially expanded for clarity and
 
  detail in \hyperref[GPLv3s10]{GPLv3~\S10}..  Each time you
 
redistribute a GPL’d program, the recipient automatically receives a license
 
from each original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the program subject
 
to the conditions of the license. There is no requirement to take any action
 
to ensure the downstream recipient’s acceptance of the license terms, see
 
above. This places every copyright holder in the chain of descent of the code
 
to the conditions of the license.  The redistributor need not take any
 
to ensure the downstream recipient’s acceptance of the license terms.
 
This places every copyright holder in the chain of descent of the code
 
in legal privity, or direct relationship, with every downstream
 
redistributor. Two legal effects follow. First, as \S6 says, parties
 
themselves remaining in compliance have valid permissions for all actions
 
including modification and redistribution even if their immediate upstream
 
supplier of the software has been terminated for license violation. Their
 
redistributor.  Two legal effects follow.  First, downstream parties
 
who remain in compliance have valid permissions for all actions
 
(including modification and redistribution) even if their immediate upstream
 
supplier of the software has been terminated for license
 
violation\footnote{While this is legally true, as a practical matter, a
 
  failure of ``complete, corresponding source'' (CCS) provisioning by an
 
  upstream could make it effectively impossible for a downstream party to
 
  engage in a commercial redistribution pursuant to
 
  \hyperref[GPLv2s3]{GPLv2~\S3(a--b)}.  (\S~\ref{upstream} in the Compliance
 
  Guide portion of this tutorial discussed related details.)}.
 
Downstream's
 
licensed rights are not dependent on compliance of their upstream, because
 
their licenses issue directly from the copyright holder. Second, automatic
 
their licenses issue directly from the copyright holder.  Second, automatic
 
termination cannot be cured by obtaining additional copies from an alternate
 
supplier: the license permissions emanate only from the original licensors,
 
and if they have automatically terminated permission, no act by any
 
intermediate license holder can restore those terminated rights.
 
intermediate license holder can restore those terminated
 
rights.
 

	
 
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\section{GPLv2~\S7: ``Give Software Liberty or Give It Death!''}
 
\label{GPLv2s7}
 

	
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