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							|  | @ -2257,12 +2257,23 @@ as bytecode.  The definition of object code also ensures that licensees | |||
| cannot escape their obligations under the GPL by resorting to shrouded | ||||
| source or obfuscated programming. | ||||
| 
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| % FIXME: More about CCS here. | ||||
| Keeping with the desire to ``round up'' definitions that were spread | ||||
| throughout the text of GPLv2, the definition of CCS\footnote{Note that the | ||||
|   preferred term by those who work with both GPLv2 and GPLv3 is ``Complete | ||||
|   Corresponding Source'', abbreviated to ``CCS''.  Admittedly, the word | ||||
|   ``complete'' no longer appears in GPLv3 (which uses the word ``all'' | ||||
|   instead).  However, both GPLv2 and the early drafts of GPLv3 itself used | ||||
|   the word complete, and early GPLv3 drafts even included the phrase | ||||
|   ``Complete Corresponding Source''.  Meanwhile, use of the acronym ``CCS'' | ||||
|   (sometimes, ``C&CS'') was so widespread among GPL enforcers that its use | ||||
|   continues even though GPLv3-focused experts tend to say just the defined | ||||
|   term of ``Corresponding Source''.}, or, as GPLv3 officially calls it, | ||||
| ``Corresponding Source'', is given in GPLv3~\S1\P4 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| % FIXME: CCS Coresponding Source updated to newer definition in later drafts | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The definition of ``Complete Corresponding Source Code'' given in the | ||||
| second paragraph of section 1 is as broad as necessary to protect users' | ||||
| This definition of ``Corresponding Source'' | ||||
| is as broad as necessary to protect users' | ||||
| exercise of their rights under the GPL. We follow the definition with | ||||
| particular examples to remove any doubt that they are to be considered | ||||
| Complete Corresponding Source Code. We wish to make completely clear | ||||
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