typos/extra words

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Mike Linksvayer 2014-10-22 10:51:00 -07:00 committed by Bradley M. Kuhn
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@ -2142,7 +2142,7 @@ Chapters~\ref{run-and-verbatim} and~\ref{source-and-binary} presented the
core freedom-defending provisions of GPLv2\@, which are in GPLv2~\S\S0--3.
GPLv2\S\S~4--7 of the GPLv2 are designed to ensure that GPLv2~\S\S0--3 are
not infringed, are enforceable, are kept to the confines of copyright law but
also not trumped by other copyright agreements or components of other
also not trumped by other copyright agreements or components of other
entirely separate legal systems. In short, while GPLv2~\S\S0--3 are the parts
of the license that defend the freedoms of users and programmers,
GPLv2~\S\S4--7 are the parts of the license that keep the playing field clear
@ -2390,7 +2390,7 @@ copyright licenses.
\section{GPLv2~\S11: No Warranty}
\label{GPLv2s11}
Most warranty disclaimer language shout at you. The
Most warranty disclaimer language shouts at you. The
\href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-316}{Uniform Commercial
Code~\S2-316} requires that disclaimers of warranty be ``conspicuous''.
There is apparently general acceptance that \textsc{all caps} is the
@ -2398,7 +2398,7 @@ preferred way to make something conspicuous, and that has over decades worked
its way into the voodoo tradition of warranty disclaimer writing.
That said, there is admittedly some authority under USA law suggesting that
effective warranty disclaimers that conspicuousness can be established by
conspicuousness can be established by
capitalization and is absent when a disclaimer has the same typeface as the
terms surrounding it (see \textit{Stevenson v.~TRW, Inc.}, 987 F.2d 288, 296
(5th Cir.~1993)). While GPLv3's drafters doubted that such authority would