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<h1 class="unnumbered"> Preface to the Second Edition </h1>
<p>The second edition of <cite>Free Software, Free Society</cite> holds updated
versions of most of the essays from the first edition, as well as many
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<p>The essays about software patents are now in one section and those
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these two laws, whose workings and effects on software are totally
different.
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<p>Another section presents the GNU licenses, with a new introduction
written with Brett Smith giving their history and the motives for each
of them. One of the essays explains why software projects should
upgrade to version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
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<p>There is now a section on issues of terminology, since the way we
describe an issue affects how people think about it.
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<p>The last two sections describe some of the traps free software
developers and users face—new ways to lose your freedom, and how to
avoid them.
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