Incorporate pasted text re: AGPLv3/GPLv3 combos.
This text was mostly useful as is. However, it failed to make a key point I've often made: that the combinations created by comingling AGPLv3'd code with GPLv3'd code may be difficult to disentangle, and thus in practice, it may turn out that such a combination effectively must be licensed as a whole under AGPLv3, even if technically some copyrights included therein are GPLv3'd. In practice, this nuance is only a technical barrier, since complying fully with AGPLv3 automatically complies with GPLv3.
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							|  | @ -4071,18 +4071,15 @@ does not automatically apply to all GPLv3'd works. | |||
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| Meanwhile, those who criticize the permission to link with code under the Affero | ||||
| GPL should recognize that most other free software licenses also permit | ||||
| such linking.  | ||||
| such linking.  In particular, when a combined work is made by linking GPLv3-covered code | ||||
| with AGPLv3-covered code, the copyleft on one part will not extend to the | ||||
| other part. In such combinations, the Affero requirement will apply only to | ||||
| the part originally brought into the combination under the Affero license. | ||||
| In theory, those who receive such a combination and do not wish to use code | ||||
| under the Affero requirement may remove the Affero-covered portion of the | ||||
| combination.  (Admittedly, in practice, de-mingling of combined code can be | ||||
| technically difficult.) | ||||
| 
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| %FIXME-URGENT: integrate | ||||
| %   A section on combinations with Affero is necessary anyway here. | ||||
| 
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| When a combined work is made by linking GPLv3-covered code with AGPL-covered | ||||
| code, the copyleft on one part will not extend to the other part. That is to | ||||
| say, in such combinations, the Affero requirement will apply only to the part | ||||
| that was brought into the combination under the Affero license. Those who | ||||
| receive such a combination and do not wish to use code under the Affero | ||||
| requirement may remove the Affero-covered portion of the combination. | ||||
| % FIXME-URGENT: end | ||||
| 
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| \section{GPLv3~\S14: So, When's GPLv4?} | ||||
| \label{GPLv3s14} | ||||
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