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Replace editorial commentary w/ FSF's link.

My personal comment here, which I wrote on 2003-05-26 (see
f05ce6c657e07a5e6c6def3f7ff8cb2b2bcf6246 ), is probably not particularly
useful. I still tend to use the phrasing as original stated in the
removed text herein; however, I'm admittedly the only one. I don't deny
that I hope to coin some terminology usage through my work on this
Guide, but this particular use of "nonfree software" to mean
"noncommercially proprietary" is not so important IMO that this Guide
must coin it.

The FSF's page on this doesn't make that distinction, and has much more
detail on this issue than this section does. Therefore, the
personal statement is removed, and the organizational statement on the
FSF's site is instead linked to.

# Copyleft and GPL Tutorial Materials

This repository contains various tutorial materials regarding the suite of GNU General
Public Licenses and copyleft (as applied to software).

The primary item of interest is an omnibus book on copyleft that is built
from the comprehensive-GPL-guide.tex file.

You can build this project with the following command:

    $ make

HTML output will be in the public_html directory and a PDF file will be in  comprehensive-gpl-guide.pdf.

You may need to first install texlive, tex4ht and a few other things.  On
Debian-based systems, this command may work as root:

    # aptitude install texlive-full make tex4ht

You may also
[browse the current version of the guide on copyleft.org](https://copyleft.org/guide/),
and [download a PDF of the Guide as well](http://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guide.pdf).

Note the
[canonical repository for this project is on gitorious](https://gitorious.org/copyleft-org/tutorial/source/master:).
Typically, copies of this repository on  sites other than gitorious are for informational and backup
purposes only.

## Contributing

Improvements of all kinds and manner are welcome.  Please review
[the instructions and details regarding making contributions](CONTRIBUTING.md)
for more information.