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\huge{GPLv3 Final Discussion Draft Rationale}
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\Large{Free Software Foundation}
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Copyright \copyright\ 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street,
Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA\\ 

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Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted
worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice is
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\subsection*{Foreword}

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This two-part document states the rationale for the changes in the final
discussion draft of GPLv3.  Part I provides a discussion of the most
significant changes we have made since the release of the previous
draft, organized by subject matter.  Part II is an annotated markup
version of the final draft, with \sout{strikeout} indicating text
present in the third discussion draft that we have removed and
\textbf{bold} indicating text we have added. The annotations state the
reasons for specific changes; some annotations refer the reader to Part
I.  We refer to the third and final discussion drafts of GPLv3 as
``Draft 3'' and the ``Final Draft,'' respectively.
 
A public comment period lasting 29 days will begin on the date of our
release of the Final Draft.  At the end of that period we will formally
promulgate the final version of GPLv3.

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\part{Discussion of Principal Changes}

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\section{Apache License Compatibility}\label{apache}

We are pleased to report that the Final Draft makes the Apache License,
version 2.0, fully compatible with GPLv3.  We are grateful to the Apache
Software Foundation for working with us to achieve this long-sought
goal.

The concerns we stated in the Draft 3 Rationale were based on varying
literal readings of section 9 of the Apache license that differed from
the interpretation of section 9 held by the ASF itself.  During the
course of productive discussions with the ASF following the release of
Draft 3, we ascertained that, to the ASF, the words ``by reason of'' in
the section 9 upstream indemnification clause meant nothing broader or
vaguer than ``directly as a result of.''  Read in this light, section 9
seems to us a reasonable and fair approach to protecting upstream
developers, even though we do not wish to adopt such a provision in our
own license.

The Final Draft makes the Apache indemnification clause compatible with
GPLv3 by adding a new category of additional conditions in section 7
that may be applied, with appropriate copyright authorization, to
material added to a covered work.  Subsection 7f allows terms that
require indemnification of upstream licensors and authors of the
material by a downstream distributor who conveys with contractual
assumptions of liability to the recipient, for any liability that such
assumptions directly impose on those upstream parties.

Another change we have made to section 7 should make clearer that the
trademark clause in section 6 of the Apache license is compatible with
GPLv3.  The new subsection 7e permits addition of terms that decline to
grant rights under trademark law for use of trademarks.  We have no
objection to such terms, since they do not limit the rights of users
beyond what applicable trademark law would itself require.  However,
mandatorily-worded trademark clauses that purport to use the power of
copyright or contract to affirmatively prohibit users from exercising
rights otherwise available under trademark law continue to be
incompatible with the GPL.

The GPLv3 compatibility of the Apache license patent termination clause
was accomplished in Draft 3 by the second specific example of an
impermissible further restriction given in the third paragraph of
section 10.  We revised this clause in the Final Draft in order to avoid
the use of the terms ``contributor'' and ``contribution'' (now
``contributor version''), which we wished to confine to section 11 for
greater readability. Given the way in which we defined ``contribution''
in Draft 3, the parenthetical wording in the Draft 3 version of the
section 10 clause was actually broader than necessary to achieve Apache
license compatibility.  The Final Draft therefore replaces the words
``the Program (or the contribution of any contributor)'' with ``the
Program or any portion of it'' without affecting Apache license
compatibility.  We confirmed this conclusion in discussions with the
ASF.


\section{Cut-off Date in Section 11, Paragraph 7}\label{11par7}

In the Final Draft we have removed the square brackets surrounding the
cut-off date at the end of section 11, paragraph 7 (corresponding to
section 11, paragraph 5 in Draft 3).  That is to say, the Final Draft
limits the effect of this provision to deals involving discriminatory
patent promises that do not predate the release of Draft 3.

The main reason for this is tactical.  We believe we can do more to
protect the community by allowing Novell to use software under GPL
version 3 than by forbidding it to do so.  This is because of
paragraph 6 of section 11 (corresponding to paragraph 4 in Draft 3).
It will apply, under the Microsoft/Novell deal, because of the coupons
that Microsoft has acquired that essentially commit it to participate
in the distribution of the Novell SLES GNU/Linux system.

Microsoft is scrambling to dispose of as many Novell SLES coupons as
possible prior to the adoption of GPLv3.  Unfortunately for Microsoft,
those coupons bear no expiration date, and paragraph 6 has no cut-off
date.  Through its ongoing distribution of coupons, Microsoft will
have procured the distribution of GPLv3-covered programs as soon as
they are included in Novell SLES distributions, thereby extending
patent defenses to all downstream recipients of that software by
operation of paragraph 6.

A secondary reason is to avoid affecting other kinds of agreements for
other kinds of activities.  We have tried to take care in paragraph 7
to distinguish pernicious deals of the Microsoft/Novell type from
business conduct that is not particularly harmful, but we cannot be
sure we have entirely succeeded.  There remains some risk that other
unchangeable past agreements could fall within its scope.

In future deals, distributors engaging in ordinary business practices
can structure the agreements so that they do not fall under paragraph
7.  However, it will block Microsoft and other patent aggressors from
further such attempts to subvert parts of our community.


\section{User Products}\label{userprod}

Section 6 of Draft 3 contained a bracketed reference to the
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, stating that interpretation of the term
``consumer product'' in that United States statute would control
interpretation of the corresponding term in section 6.  Many readers of
Draft 3, particularly those outside the U.S., objected to the inclusion
of a U.S. statutory reference in the GPL.  This reference was merely
intended to guide interpretation of the User Product definition in
difficult cases, but we agree that it is better for a license designed
for international use to avoid country-specific legal references.  We
recognize also that the interpretive history of a U.S. statute will be
relatively inaccessible even to users in the U.S., let alone those in
other countries.

In the Final Draft, therefore, we have replaced the Magnuson-Moss
reference with three sentences that encapsulate the judicial and
administrative principles established over the past three decades in the
United States concerning the Magnuson-Moss consumer product definition.
First, we state that doubtful cases are resolved in favor of coverage
under the definition.  Second, we indicate that the words ``normally
used'' in the consumer product definition refer to a typical or common
use of a class of product, and not the status of a particular user or
expected or actual uses by a particular user.  Third, we make clear that
the existence of substantial non-consumer uses of a product does not
negate a determination that it is a consumer product, unless such
non-consumer uses represent the only significant mode of use of that
product.

It should be clear from these added sentences that it is the general
mode of use of a product that determines objectively whether or not it
is a consumer product.  One could not escape the effects of the User
Products provisions by labeling what is demonstrably a consumer product
in ways that suggest it is ``for professionals,'' for example, contrary
to what some critics of Draft 3 have suggested.

We have made one additional change to the User Products provisions of
section 6.  In Draft 3 we made clear that the requirement to provide
Installation Information implies no requirement to provide warranty or
support for a work that has been modified or installed on a User
Product.  The Final Draft adds that there is similarly no requirement to
provide warranty or support for the User Product itself.


\section{Conveying to Outside Contractors}\label{contractor}

Large enterprise users of free software often contract with non-employee
developers, often working offsite, to make modifications intended for
the user's private or internal use, and often arrange with other
companies to operate their data centers.  Whether GPLv2 permits these
activities is not clear and may depend on variations in copyright law.
The practices seem basically harmless, so we have decided to make it
clear they are permitted.

GPLv3 now gives an explicit permission for a client to provide a copy of
its modified software to a contractor exclusively for that contractor to
modify it further, or run it, on behalf of the client.  However, the
client can only exercise this control over its own copyrighted changes
to the GPL-covered program.  The parts of the program it obtained from
other contributors must be provided to the contractor with the usual GPL
freedoms.

This permission is stated in section 2.  It permits a user to convey
covered works to contractors operating exclusively on the user's behalf,
under the user's direction and control, and to require the contractors
to keep the user's copyrighted changes confidential, but only if the
contractor is limited to acting on the user's behalf, just as the user's
employees would have to act.

The strict conditions in this provision are needed so that it cannot be
twisted to fit other activities, such as making a program available to
users or customers.  By making the limits on this provision very narrow,
we ensure that in all other cases the contractor gets the full freedoms
of the GPL.

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\part{Annotated Markup of Final Discussion Draft}

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\textbf{Final} Discussion Draft \sout{3} of Version 3, \sout{28 March}
 \textbf{31 May} 2007

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THIS IS A DRAFT, NOT A PUBLISHED VERSION OF THE \\ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE. 

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 Copyright \copyright\ 2007 Free Software Foundation,
 Inc. (http://fsf.org) \\ 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
 Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA \\ Everyone is permitted to copy and
 distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is
 not allowed.}
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\section*{Preamble}

 The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software
and other kinds of works.

  The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed
to take away your freedom to share and change the works.  By contrast,
the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to
share and change \sout{free software} \textbf{all versions of a
program}---to make sure \sout{the software is} \textbf{it remains} free
\textbf{software} for all its users.  We, the Free Software Foundation,
use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies
also to any other \sout{program whose} \textbf{work released this way by
its} authors \sout{commit to using it}.  You can apply it to your
programs, too.

  When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
price.  Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
\sout{this service} \textbf{them} if you wish), that you receive source
code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or
use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do
these things.

  To protect your rights, we need to \sout{make requirements that forbid
anyone to deny} \textbf{prevent others from denying} you these rights or
\sout{to ask} \textbf{asking} you to surrender the rights.  Therefore,
you have certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the
software, or if you modify it\textbf{: responsibilities to respect the
freedom of others}.

  For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same
freedoms that you received.  You must make sure that they, too,
receive or can get the source code.  And you must show them these
terms so they know their rights.

  Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps:
(1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License
\sout{which gives} \textbf{giving} you legal permission to copy,
distribute and/or modify \sout{the software} \textbf{it}.

  For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains
that there is no warranty for this free software.  For both users' and
authors' sake, the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as
changed, so that their problems will not be \sout{associated}
\textbf{attributed} erroneously \sout{with the} \textbf{to authors of}
previous versions.

  Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run
modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer
can do so.  This is fundamentally incompatible with the \sout{purpose}
\textbf{aim} of \sout{the GPL, which is to protect} \textbf{protecting}
users' freedom to change the software \sout{where changes are possible}.
The systematic pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for
individuals to use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable.
Therefore, we have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the
practice for those products.  If such problems arise substantially in
other domains, we stand ready to extend this provision to those domains
in future versions of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of
users.

  Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents.
States should not allow patents to restrict development and use of
software on general-purpose computers, but in \sout{places where they}
\textbf{those that} do, we wish to avoid the special danger that patents
applied to a free program could make it effectively proprietary.  To
prevent this, the GPL assures that patents cannot be used to render the
program non-free.

  The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
modification follow.

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\centerline{TERMS AND CONDITIONS}


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\ordsec{Definitions.}

 ``This License'' refers to version 3 of the GNU General Public License.

  ``Copyright'' also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds
of works, such as semiconductor masks.

  ``The Program'' refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this
License.  Each licensee is addressed as ``you.''  ``Licensees'' and
``recipients'' may be individuals or organizations.

  To ``modify'' a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the
work in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making
of \sout{a verbatim} \textbf{an exact} copy.  The resulting work is
called a ``modified version'' of the earlier work or a work ``based on''
the earlier work.  A ``covered work'' means either the unmodified
Program or a work based on the Program.

  \sout{A ``contributor'' is a party who licenses under this License a
work on which the Program is based.  Such a work is called the party's
``contribution.''}\footnote{We moved the definition of contributor and
contributor version (the replacement for the term ``contribution'') to
section 11, since in the Final Draft those terms are used only in that
section. See n.~\ref{contrib-n}.\label{contrib-o}}

  To ``propagate'' a work means to do \sout{(or cause others to do)}
anything with it that\textbf{,} \sout{requires} \textbf{without}
permission\textbf{, would make you directly or secondarily liable for
infringement} under applicable copyright law,\footnote{As we noted in
the Draft 3 Rationale, the parenthetical wording ``or cause others to
do'' introduced in Draft 3 was intended to explicitly incorporate
concepts of secondary copyright liability into the definition of
propagation.  However, the wording we chose in Draft 3 was broader than
necessary to do that job.  Some readers pointed out that, if taken
literally, it could make a customer the propagator of the work the
customer receives.  The revised definition of propagate achieves the
intended result more precisely.} except executing it on a
computer or making modifications that you do not share.  Propagation
includes copying, distribution (with or without modification), making
available to the public, and in some countries other activities as well.
To ``convey'' a work means any kind of propagation that enables other
parties to make or receive copies, excluding sublicensing.  Mere
interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of
a copy, is not conveying.

  \sout{A party's ``essential patent claims'' in a work are all patent
claims owned or controlled by the party, whether already acquired or
hereafter acquired, that would be infringed by some manner, permitted by
this License, of making, using, or selling the work, but do not include
claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further
modification of the work.  For purposes of this definition, ``control''
includes the right to grant sublicenses in a manner consistent with the
requirements of this License.}\footnote{We moved the definition of
essential patent claims to section 11, since it is used only in that
section. See n.~\ref{epc-n}.\label{epc-o}}

  \textbf{An interactive user interface displays ``Appropriate Legal
Notices'' to the extent that it includes a convenient and prominently
visible feature that (1) displays an appropriate copyright notice, and
(2) tells the user that there is no warranty for the work (except to the
extent that warranties are provided), that licensees may convey the work
under this License, and how to view a copy of this License.  If the
interface presents a list of user commands or options, such as a menu, a
prominent item in the list meets this criterion.}\footnote{We factored
this definition out of subsection 5d.  In doing so, we have tempered the
5d requirement somewhat in response to arguments by several readers that
it was too restrictive of the right of modification.  The term
Appropriate Legal Notices is now also used in subsection 7b.\label{aln}}

\ordsec{Source Code.}

 The ``source code'' for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it.  ``Object code'' means any non-source form
of a work.

  A ``Standard Interface'' means an interface that either is an official
standard defined by a recognized standards body, or, in the case of
interfaces specified for a particular programming language, one that is
widely used among developers working in that language.

  The ``System Libraries'' of an executable work include anything, other
than the work as a whole, that (a) is \sout{normally} included in the
\textbf{normal form} \sout{distribution} of \textbf{packaging} a Major
Component,\footnote{We think that speaking of the ``packaging'' of a
System Library with a Major Component is somewhat clearer than the
notion of its being included in a ``distribution'' of such a component.}
but which is not part of that Major Component, and (b) serves only to
enable use of the work with that Major Component, or to implement a
Standard Interface for which an implementation is available to the
public in source code form.  A ``Major Component'', in this context,
means a major essential component (kernel, window system, and so on) of
the specific operating system (if any) on which the executable work
runs, or a compiler used to produce the work, or an object code
interpreter used to run it.

  The ``Corresponding Source'' for a work in object code form means all
the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable
work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to
control those activities.  However, it does not include the work's
System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free
programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but
which are not part of the work.  For example, Corresponding Source
includes interface definition files associated with source files for the
work, and the source code for shared libraries and dynamically linked
subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require, such as
by intimate data communication or control flow between those subprograms
and other parts of the work.

  The Corresponding Source need not include anything that users
can regenerate automatically from other parts of the Corresponding
Source.

  The Corresponding Source for a work in source code form is that
same work.

\ordsec{Basic Permissions.}

  All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of
copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated
conditions are met.  This License explicitly affirms your unlimited
permission to run the unmodified Program.  The output from running a
covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its
content, constitutes a covered work.  This License acknowledges your
rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.

  \sout{Propagation of} \textbf{You may make, run and propagate} covered
works that you do not convey, \sout{and making modified versions of the
Program that you do not convey, are permitted} without
conditions\sout{,} so long as your license otherwise remains in force.
\textbf{You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of
having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you with
facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with the
terms of this License in conveying all material for which you do not
hold copyright.  Those thus making or running the covered works for you
must do so exclusively on your behalf, under your direction and control,
on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of your copyrighted
material outside their relationship with you.}\footnote{See Part I, \S\
\ref{contractor}.}

  Conveying \textbf{under any other circumstances} is permitted
\textbf{solely} under the conditions stated below.  Sublicensing is not
allowed; section 10 makes it unnecessary.

\ordsec{\sout{No Denying} \textbf{Protecting} Users' \textbf{Legal}
Rights \sout{through Technical Measures} \textbf{From Anti-Circumvention
Law}.\protect\footnote{This section shields users from being subjected
to liability under anti-circumvention law for exercising their rights
under the GPL, so far as the GPL can do so.  Some readers seem to have
assumed that this provision contains a prohibition on DRM; it does not
(no part of GPLv3 forbids DRM).  We think that the title of section 3
may have contributed to this misunderstanding, and so we have replaced
it with a more descriptive one.}}

  No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological
measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article 11
of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or similar
laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such measures.

  When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid
circumvention of technical measures to the extent such circumvention
is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to
the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or
modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's
users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of
technical measures.

\bracketsec{Conveying Verbatim Copies.}

  You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you
receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice;
keep intact all notices stating that this License and any
non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code;
keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all
recipients a copy of this License along with the Program.

  You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey,
and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee.

\bracketsec{Conveying Modified Source Versions.}

  You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to
produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the
terms of section 4 above, provided that you also meet all of these
conditions:

\renewcommand{\labelenumi}{\alph{enumi})}
\begin{enumerate}

\item

    The work must carry prominent notices stating that you
    modified it, and giving a relevant date.

\item 

    The work must carry prominent notices stating that it is released
    under this License and any conditions added under section 7.  This
    requirement modifies the requirement in section 4 to ``keep intact
    all notices''.

\item 

    You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to
    anyone who comes into possession of a copy.  This License will
    therefore apply, \sout{unmodified except as permitted by}
    \textbf{along with any applicable} section 7 \textbf{additional
    terms},\footnote{The revised wording concerning section 7 expresses
    more clearly what was stated by the previous wording.} to the whole
    of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged.
    This License gives no permission to license the work in any other
    way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have
    separately received it.

\item

    If the work has interactive user interfaces, each must \sout{include
    a convenient feature that displays an appropriate copyright notice,
    and tells the user that there is no warranty for the work (unless
    you provide a warranty), that licensees may convey the work under
    this License, and how to view a copy of this License.  Specifically,
    if the interface presents a list of user commands or options, such
    as a menu, a command to display this information must be prominent
    in the list; otherwise, the work must display this information at
    startup.} \textbf{display Appropriate Legal Notices;} \sout{However}
    \textbf{however}, if the Program has interactive interfaces that do
    not \sout{comply with this subsection} \textbf{display Appropriate
    Legal Notices}, your work need not make them \sout{comply}
    \textbf{do so}.\footnote{See n.~\ref{aln}.}

\end{enumerate}

A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent
works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, in
or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an
``aggregate'' if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not
used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users
beyond what the individual works permit.  Inclusion of a covered work in
an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of
the aggregate.

\bracketsec{Conveying Non-Source Forms.}

  You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of
sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable
Corresponding Source under the terms of this License, in one of these
ways:

\begin{enumerate}

\renewcommand{\labelenumi}{\alph{enumi})}

\item 

    Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
    (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by the
    Corresponding Source fixed on a durable physical medium
    customarily used for software interchange.

\item 

    Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
    (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a written
    offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as long as you
    offer spare parts or customer support for that product model, either
    (1) to give anyone who possesses the object code a copy of the
    Corresponding Source for all the software in the product that is
    covered by this License, on a durable physical medium customarily
    used for software interchange, for a price no more than your
    reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source,
    or (2) to provide access to copy the Corresponding Source from a
    network server at no charge.

\item 

    Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the
    written offer to provide the Corresponding Source.  This alternative
    is allowed only occasionally and noncommercially, and only if you
    received the object code with such an offer, in accord with
    subsection 6b.
   
\item 

    Convey the object code by offering access from a designated place
    (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the
    Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no
    further charge.  You need not require recipients to copy the
    Corresponding Source along with the object code. If the place to
    copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source
    may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party) that
    supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain clear
    directions next to the object code saying where to find the
    Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the
    Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is
    available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.

\item 

    Convey the object code using peer-to-peer transmission, provided you
    inform other peers where the object code and Corresponding Source of
    the work are being offered to the general public at no charge under
    subsection 6d.

\end{enumerate}

A separable portion of the object code, whose source code is excluded
from the Corresponding Source as a System Library, need not be
included in conveying the object code work.

A ``User Product'' is either (1) a ``consumer
product\textbf{,}''\sout{,} which means any tangible personal property
which is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, or
(2) anything designed or sold for incorporation into a dwelling.
\sout{[In cases of doubt concerning whether an item is a ``consumer
product'', the interpretation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, 15
U.S.C. 2301 et seq., shall provide the basis for interpretation,
regardless of the choice of law determination for this License as a
whole.]}  \textbf{In determining whether a product is a consumer
product, doubtful cases shall be resolved in favor of coverage.  For a
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The wording we added in the Final Draft makes clearer than before that
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\item 

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under this License of the Program or a work on which the Program is
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version.''}\footnote{This paragraph was relocated from section 0 and
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contributor makes clearer that contributors are a subset of the
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of the previous definition to include copyright holders who make the
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We agree with those who argued that our use of the term ``contribution''
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copyrighted portions of it) was confusing.  In the Final Draft we have
replaced it with ``contributor version,'' a term used with approximately
the same meaning in the Mozilla Public License and its
progeny.\label{contrib-n}}

  \textbf{A contributor's ``essential patent claims'' are all patent
claims owned or controlled by the contributor, whether already acquired
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The second paragraph of AGPLv3 section 13 is a reciprocal counterpart to
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\bracketsec{Disclaimer of Warranty \sout{and Limitation of
Liability}.\protect\footnote{Lawyers in the United States have alerted
us to authority suggesting that, to be given full effect, a limitation
of liability should not be included in the same provision as a warranty
disclaimer.  See, e.g., \textit{Hawaiian Telephone Co.~v.~Microform Data
Systems, Inc.}, 829 F.2d 919 (9th Cir.~1987).  We are doubtful that such
authority is properly applicable to free software copyright licenses,
but we have divided section 15 into three sections in the interest of
caution.\label{15-split}}}

THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW.  EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM ``AS IS'' WITHOUT
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PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE
DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR
CORRECTION.

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\bracketsec{\textbf{Limitation of Liability.}}

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR \linebreak AGREED TO IN
WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES
AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR
DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR
OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.


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\ordsec{\textbf{Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.}}


  If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided
above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms,
reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates
an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the
Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a
copy of the Program in return for a fee.

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