Begin section explaining purchasing on open market

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investigates a potential GPL violation. In this case, obviously, no
violation was uncovered.}
\section{Consumer Purchase and Unboxing}
The process for copyleft compliance investigation, when properly conducted,
determines whether users inclined to exercise their rights under a copyleft
license will be successful in their attempt. Therefore, at every stage, the
investigator seeks to take actions that reasonably technically knowledgeable
users would during the ordinary course of their acquisition and use of
products. As such, the investigator typically purchases the device on the
open market to verify that distribution of the copylefted software therein
complies with binary distribution requirements(such as those
\tutorialpartsplit{discussed in \textit{Detailed Analysis of the GNU GPL and
Related Licenses}}{discussed herein \S~\ref{GPLv2s3} and
\S~\ref{GPLv3s6}}.
\section{Root Filesystem and Kernel Compilation}
* We found a CD included in the box that the ThinkPenguin TPE-NWIFIROUTER