distributions  of GPL'd

software.  To comply with GPL's CCS requirements, the distributor

\textit{must} always know precisely what sources generated a given binary

distribution.

In an unfortunately large number of our enforcement cases, the violating

company's engineering team had difficulty reconstructing the CCS

for binaries distributed by the company.  Here are three simple rules to

\begin{itemize}

\item Ensure that your

developers are using revision control systems properly.

\item Have developers mark or ``tag'' the full source tree corresponding to

  builds distributed to customers

explicit geographical distribution limitation, and the reasoning for that one

invocation was not fitting with FSF's intended spirit of GPLv2~\S8.  As such,

GPLv2~\S8 was not included at all in GPLv3.

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\chapter{Odds, Ends, and Absolutely No Warranty}

GPLv2~\S\S0--7 constitute the freedom-defending terms of the GPLv2.  The remainder

liability.

\section{GPLv2~\S9: FSF as Stewards of GPL}

\label{GPLv2s9}

FSF reserves the exclusive right to publish future versions of the GPL\@;

GPLv2~\S9 expresses this.  While the stewardship of the copyrights on the body

of GPL'd software around the world is shared among thousands of

The term ``patent license,'' as used in GPLv3~\S11\P4--6, is not meant to be

confined to agreements formally identified or classified as patent licenses.

GPLv3~\S11\P3  makes this clear by defining ``patent

license,'' for purposes of the subsequent three paragraphs, as ``any express

agreement or commitment, however denominated, not to enforce a patent

(such as an express permission to practice a patent or covenant not to

sue for patent infringement)''

% The definition does not include patent licenses that arise by

% implication or operation of law, because the third through fifth paragraphs

% of section 11 are specifically concerned with explicit promises that purport

% to be legally enforceable.

GPLv3~\S11\P5 is commonly called GPLv3's downstream shielding provision.  It

responds particularly to the problem of exclusive deals between patent