diff --git a/compliance-guide.tex b/compliance-guide.tex index 7a355588f9e6414f7338dacd4aa0d2527b8a1646..f2dc34502b811e509d2f3d0c2612b23fd2df68f8 100644 --- a/compliance-guide.tex +++ b/compliance-guide.tex @@ -162,23 +162,32 @@ situations admittedly do require a highly fact-dependent analysis and cannot be addressed in a general-purpose document, anyway. -Most companies accused of violations, however, lack a basic understanding -of how to comply even in the straightforward scenario. This document -provides that fundamental and generally applicable prerequisite knowledge. +\medskip + +Most companies accused of violations lack a basic understanding +of how to comply even in the former straightforward scenario. This document +provides those companies with the fundamental and generally applicable prerequisite knowledge. For answers to rarer and more complicated legal questions, such as whether -your software is a derivative work of some copylefted software, consult +your software is a derivative or combined work of some copylefted software, consult with an attorney.\footnote{If you would like more information on the application of derivative works doctrine to software, a detailed legal discussion is presented in our colleague Dan Ravicher's article, - \textit{Software Derivative Work: A Circuit Dependent Determination}.} + \textit{Software Derivative Work: A Circuit Dependent Determination} and in + \tutorialpartsplit{\texit{Detailed Analysis of the GNU GPL and Related + Licenses}'s Section on derivative works}{\S~\ref{derivative-works} of + this tutorial}.} -For this discussion, we will assume that you have already identified the +This discussion thus assumes that you have already identified the ``work'' covered by the license, and that any components not under the GPL (e.g., applications written entirely by your developers that merely happen to run on a Linux-based operating system) distributed in conjunction with -those works are separate works within the meaning of copyright law. In -such a case, the GPL requires you to provide complete and corresponding -source for the GPL'd components and your modifications thereto, but not +those works are separate works within the meaning of copyright law and the GPL\@. In +such a case, the GPL requires you to provide complete corresponding +source (CCS)\footnote{For more on CCS, see +\tutorialpartsplit{\texit{Detailed Analysis of the GNU GPL and Related + Licenses}'s Section on GPLv2~\S2 and GPLv3~\S1.}{\S~\ref{GPLv2s2} and \S~\ref{GPLv3s1} of + this tutorial}. +for the GPL'd components and your modifications thereto, but not for independent proprietary applications. The procedures described in this document address this typical scenario.