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Software Freedom Conservancy and the Legal Infrastructure Behind Community Projects

Software Freedom Conservancy gave community-run free-software projects shared nonprofit, financial, legal, trademark, contract, and license-compliance infrastructure without requiring each project to build its own institution.

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Copyleft and the GNU GPL: Using Copyright to Preserve Software Freedom

Copyleft used copyright law in an unusual way: instead of only restricting copying, it granted broad freedoms while requiring redistributed modified versions to preserve those freedoms.

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