diff --git a/compliance-guide.tex b/compliance-guide.tex index 82b02978cd86a0b9fdd903d16d71427e81c7228c..110b71b089a81a90d24bbc441f170f974aaa8fc6 100644 --- a/compliance-guide.tex +++ b/compliance-guide.tex @@ -157,13 +157,18 @@ 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 copyleft provisions are invoked. +The core compliance issue faced, thus, in such a situation, is not an discussion of what is or is not a +combined or derivative work, but rather, issues related to distribution and +conveyance of binary works based on GPL'd source, but without Complete, +Corresponding Source. This tutorial therefore focuses primarily on that issue. Admittedly, a tiny -minority of situations lie outside these two categories, and thus -do involve close questions about derivative and combined works. Those -situations admittedly do require a highly +minority of compliance situations relate to question of derivative and +combined words. Those +situations are so rare, and the details from situation to situation differ +greatly. Thus, such situations require a highly fact-dependent analysis and cannot be addressed in a general-purpose -document, anyway. +document such as this one. \medskip