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GPLv2, Section 8 is gone and there isn't much to say about it anymore.

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@ -2060,14 +2060,10 @@ copyrighted interfaces (no country to our knowledge even permits those
yet), that the GPLv2'd software can continue in free and unabated
distribution in the countries where such controls do not exist.
It is a partial ``out'' from GPLv2~\S7. Without GPLv2~\S8, if a copyright holder
knew of a patent in a particular country licensed in a GPL-incompatible
way, then she could not distribute under GPL, because the work could
legitimately end up in the hands of citizens of Unfreedonia.
It is an inevitable but sad reality that some countries are freer than
others. GPLv2~\S8 exists to permit distribution in those countries that are
free without otherwise negating parts of the license.
As far as is currently known, GPLv2~\S8 has never been formally used by any
copyright holders. Some have used GPLv2~\S8 to explain various odd special
topics of distribution, but generally speaking, this section is not
particularly useful and was actually removed in GPLv3.
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\chapter{Odds, Ends, and Absolutely No Warranty}