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Mike Linksvayer (mlinksva) - 10 years ago 2014-11-16 15:37:45
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"rather bulk term" -> "rather bulky term"
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@@ -2639,25 +2639,25 @@ automatically  accounts for all exclusive rights under that regime.
 

	
 
Next, GPLv3 defines a subset of propagate --- ``convey''.
 
Conveying includes activities that constitute propagation of copies to
 
others.  As with the definition of propagate, GPLv3 thus addresses transfers
 
of copies of software in behavioral rather than statutory terms.  
 
Any propagation that enables other parties to receive or make copies of the
 
work, is called ``conveying''.  Usually, conveying is the activity that
 
triggers most of the other obligations of GPLv3.
 

	
 
\subsection{Appropriate Legal Notices}
 

	
 
GPLv2 used the term ``appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of
 
warranty'' in two places, which is a rather bulk term.  Also, experience with
 
warranty'' in two places, which is a rather bulky term.  Also, experience with
 
GPLv2 and other licenses that grant software freedom showed throughout the
 
1990s that the scope of types of notices that need preservation upon
 
conveyance were more broad that merely the copyright notices.  The
 
Appropriate Legal Notice definition consolidates the material that GPLv2
 
traditionally required preserved into one definition.
 

	
 
\subsection{Other Defined Terms}
 

	
 
Note finally that not all defined terms in GPLv3 appear in GPLv3~\S0.
 
Specifically, those defined terms that are confined in use to a single
 
section are defined in the section in which they are used, and GPLv3~\S1
 
contains those definitions focused on source code.  In this tutorial, those
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