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@@ -138,25 +138,29 @@ more complex obligations under the license.\footnote{While, there has been much
       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