Integrate this short sentence from pasted text.
This was easily integrated, but I am now not sure what I was thinking with the FIXME note about linking back to the copyleft definition. The right link is a forward-link to the derivative works chapter, and thus I've added that.
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							|  | @ -1126,18 +1126,16 @@ fact, has no control over the rules of copyright themselves.  Such rules are | |||
| the domain of copyright law and the courts --- not the licenses that utilize | ||||
| those systems. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Copyright law as a whole doesn't propose clear and straightforward guidelines | ||||
| Copyright law as a whole does not propose clear and straightforward guidelines | ||||
| for identifying the derivative and/or combined works of software.  However, | ||||
| no copyright license --- not even the GNU GPL --- can be blamed for this. | ||||
| Legislators and court opinions must give us guidance in borderline cases. | ||||
| 
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| % FIXME-URGENT: integrate (and back ref to copyleft section) | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| A | ||||
| lawyer’s conclusion on that subject will be based on the application of rules | ||||
| Meanwhile, lawyers will likely based their conclusions on the application of rules | ||||
| made in the context of literary or artistic copyright to the different | ||||
| context of computer programming. | ||||
| %FIXME-URGENT: end | ||||
| context of computer programming and by analyzing the (somewhat limited) case | ||||
| law and guidance available from various sources. | ||||
| (Chapter~\ref{derivative-works} discusses this issue in depth.) | ||||
| 
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| 
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| \section{GPLv2~\S1: Verbatim Copying} | ||||
| \label{GPLv2s1} | ||||
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