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Wrote a description of Appropriate Legal Notice from scratch.

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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