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Note that most USA states/commonwealths adopt UCC.

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While most USA lawyers will know this as simple fact, the tutorial wants
to welcome an international audience and non-lawyers too.  As such, this
dependent clause is worth adding.
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@ -2397,7 +2397,8 @@ copyright licenses.
Most warranty disclaimer language shouts at you. The Most warranty disclaimer language shouts at you. The
\href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-316}{Uniform Commercial \href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-316}{Uniform Commercial
Code~\S2-316} requires that disclaimers of warranty be ``conspicuous''. Code~\S2-316}, which most of the USA's states and commonwealths have adopted as their local
law, requires that disclaimers of warranty be ``conspicuous''.
There is apparently general acceptance that \textsc{all caps} is the There is apparently general acceptance that \textsc{all caps} is the
preferred way to make something conspicuous, and that has over decades worked preferred way to make something conspicuous, and that has over decades worked
its way into the voodoo tradition of warranty disclaimer writing. its way into the voodoo tradition of warranty disclaimer writing.