Z:gnu-www-ja-quick-guide-gplv3--7f6301-GPLv2 talks about =26quot;distri/en

GPLv2 talks about &quot;distribution&quot; a lot&mdash;when you share the program with someone else, you're distributing it. The license never says what distribution is, because the term was borrowed from United States copyright law. We expected that judges would look there for the definition. However, we later found out that copyright laws in other countries use the same word, but give it different meanings. Because of this, a judge in such a country might analyze GPLv2 differently than a judge in the United States.