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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-21 01:17:07
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       Licenses}'s Section on derivative works}{\S~\ref{derivative-works} of
     this tutorial}.}
-However, in our experience with GPL enforcement, few redistributors'
+However, experienced  GPL enforcers find that few redistributors'
 compliance challenges relate directly to the copyleft provisions; this is
 doubly true for most embedders.  Instead, the distributions of GPL'd
 systems that we encounter typically consist of a full operating system
 particularly true for most embedders.  Instead, the distributions of GPL'd
 systems most often encountered typically consist of a full operating system
 including components under the GPL (e.g., Linux, BusyBox) and components
 under the LGPL (e.g., the GNU C Library).  Sometimes, these programs have
 been patched or slightly improved by direct modification of their sources,
 resulting unequivocally in a derivative work.  Alongside these programs,
 companies often distribute fully independent, proprietary programs,
 developed from scratch, which are designed to run on the Free Software operating
 system but do not combine with, link to, modify, or otherwise derive from
 system but do not combine with, link to, modify, derive from, or otherwise
 create a combined work with
 the GPL'd components.\footnote{However, these programs do often combine
   with LGPL'd libraries. This is discussed in detail in \S~\ref{lgpl}.}
 In the latter case, where the work is unquestionably a separate work of
 creative expression, no derivative work has been created.  The tiny
 creative expression, no copyleft provisions are invoked.
 Admittedly, a tiny
 minority of situations which lie outside these two categories, and thus
 involve close questions about derivative works, require a highly
 do involve close questions about derivative and combined works.  Those
 situations admittedly do require a highly
 fact-dependent analysis and cannot be addressed in a general-purpose
 document.
+document, anyway.
 Most companies accused of violations, however, lack a basic understanding
 of how to comply even in the straightforward scenario.  This document

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