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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 9 years ago 2014-11-13 12:36:41
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Integrate introductory paragraph from pasted text

Most of the pasted text served as a useful introductory paragraph.

I also made some wordsmith changes to the following few paragraphs.

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 \subsection{GPLv3~\S6(e): Peer-to-Peer Sharing Networks}
 % FIXME-urgent: integrate
 Section 6 also allows the provision of source via such a server when the
 binary or other non-source form is distributed by peer-to-peer protocols such
 as BitTorrent. Here the requirement is only that each peer be effectively
 GPLv3~\S6(e) allows provision of CCS via another server when the binary or
 other non-source form is distributed by peer-to-peer protocols such as
 BitTorrent.  Here the requirement is only that each peer be effectively
 informed of the location of the source code on a server as above.
 % FIXME-URGENT: end
 Certain decentralized forms of peer-to-peer file sharing present a challenge
 GPLv3 really did require this addition, even though it adds  complexity to
 a key section of GPL\@.  In particular,
 Decentralized peer-to-peer file sharing present a challenge
 to the unidirectional view of distribution that is implicit in GPLv2 and
-Draft 1 of GPLv3.  Identification of an upstream/downstream link in
+initial drafts of GPLv3.  Identification of an upstream/downstream link in
 BitTorrent distribution is neither straightforward nor reasonable; such
 distribution is multidirectional, cooperative and anonymous.  In peer-to-peer
+distribution is multidirectional, cooperative and (somewhat) anonymous.  In peer-to-peer
 distribution systems, participants act both as transmitters and recipients of
 blocks of a particular file, but they perceive the experience merely as users
 and receivers, and not as distributors in any conventional sense.  At any

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