diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex
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@@ -2367,7 +2367,16 @@ Conveying includes activities that constitute propagation of copies to
 others.  As with the definition of propagate, GPLv3 thus addresses transfers
 of copies of software in behavioral rather than statutory terms.  
 
-% FIXME: Appropriate Legal Notices
+\section{Appropriate Legal Notices}
+
+GPLv2 used the term ``appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of
+warranty'' in two places, which is a rather bulk term.  Also, experience with
+GPLv2 and other licenses that grant software freedom showed throughout the
+1990s that the scope of types of notices that need preservation upon
+conveyance were more broad that merely the copyright notices.  The
+Appropriate Legal Notice definition consolidates the material that GPLv2
+traditionally required preserved into one definition.
+
 
 Note finally that not all defined terms in GPLv3 appear in GPLv3~\S0.
 Specifically, those defined terms that are confined in use to a single