Copyleft/guide Changeset - 15ae6f3a175c

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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 9 years ago 2015-03-10 02:05:18
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Wordsmith this tortured text.

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   eliminate usage of local copyright terminology to good effect.}  GPLv2
 always sought to cover all rights governed by relevant copyright law, in the
 USA and elsewhere.
 Even though differently-labeled concepts corresponding to the
 derivative work are recognized in all copyright law systems, these
 counterpart concepts might differ to some degree in scope and breadth from
 the USA derivative work.  GPLv3 therefore takes the task of
 internationalizing the license further by removing references to derivative
 the USA derivative work.  GPLv3 therefore internationalizes
 on this issue by removing GPLv2's references to derivative
 works and by providing a more globally useful definition.
 GPLv3 drops all reference to USA ``derivative works'' and returns
 to the base concept only: GPL covers the licensed work and all works where
 copyright permission from the licensed work's copyright holder.
 The new definitions returns to the common elements of copyright law.  Copyright

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