diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex
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--- a/gpl-lgpl.tex
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@@ -2397,7 +2397,8 @@ copyright licenses.
 
 Most warranty disclaimer language shouts at you.  The
 \href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-316}{Uniform Commercial
-  Code~\S2-316} requires that disclaimers of warranty be ``conspicuous''.
+  Code~\S2-316}, which most of the USA's states and commonwealths have adopted as their local
+law, requires that disclaimers of warranty be ``conspicuous''.
 There is apparently general acceptance that \textsc{all caps} is the
 preferred way to make something conspicuous, and that has over decades worked
 its way into the voodoo tradition of warranty disclaimer writing.
