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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-21 01:14:20
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 \section{Evaluate License Applicability}
 \label{derivative-works}
 Political discussion about the GPL often centers around the ``copyleft''
 requirements of the license.  Indeed, the license was designed primarily
 to embody this licensing feature.  Most companies adding non-trivial
 features (beyond mere porting and bug-fixing) to GPL'd software, and
 thereby implicating these requirements, are already well aware of their
 more complex obligations under the license.\footnote{There has been much legal
 features (beyond mere porting and bug-fixing) to GPL'd software (and
 thereby invoking these requirements) are already well aware of their
 more complex obligations under the license.\footnote{While, there has been much legal
   discussion regarding copyleft and derivative works.  In practical
   reality, this issue is not relevant to the vast majority of companies
   distributing GPL'd software.}
   distributing GPL'd software.  Those interested in this issue should study
   \tutorialpartsplit{\texit{Detailed Analysis of the GNU GPL and Related
       Licenses}'s Section on derivative works}{\S~\ref{derivative-works} of
     this tutorial}.}
 However, in our experience with GPL enforcement, 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
 including components under the GPL (e.g., Linux, BusyBox) and components

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 service for a fee. (See Section~\ref{Business Models} for more discussion
 on making a profit from Free Software redistribution.)
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 \chapter{Derivative Works: Statute and Case Law}
 \label{derivative-works}
 We digress for this chapter from our discussion of GPL's exact text to
 consider the matter of derivative works --- a concept that we must
 understand fully before considering GPLv2~\S\S2--3\@. GPL, and Free
 Software licensing in general, relies critically on the concept of
 ``derivative work'' since software that is ``independent,'' (i.e., not

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