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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 22:31:35 -0600
To: Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: GPL for govt funded/developed projects ?
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At 10:00 AM 6/8/2001, Arun Sharma wrote:
  
>Is Microsoft going to challenge them ? 

Doubtful.

>If there is a court ruling on
>this, will it be retro-active ?

Probably. If the law says that something has to be in
the public domain, than any attempt to apply another
license to it is just invalid.

--Brett


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