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Date:      17 May 2003 14:02:14 -0700
From:      swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject:   Re: a public relations opportunity for BSD
Message-ID:  <s9iss9xp61.ss9@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <3EC5BE83.88B2C630@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:

> Who said anything about "by mistake"?  If you release under
> a particular license, it's on purpose.

Unless it's by mistake. :)

> Works only if they terminate the already outstanding licenses:
> Ex Post Facto.

Or if the court terminates a license term which was mistakenly agreed to
by the contracting parties.  I think they call it "equity".  I'm not
positive, but I seem to recall courts doing things like that when it
finds that some kinds/levels of "uninjustice" is being done which is
not addressed by normal law.


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