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Yes, more or less. During the course of enforcing GPLv2, we learned that some jurisdictions used the word &ldquo;distribute&rdquo; in their own copyright laws, but gave it different meanings. We invented a new term to make our intent clear and avoid any problems that could be caused by these differences.