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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: Copyright infringement in FreeBSD/alpha
References: <199806102113.PAA09812@pluto.plutotech.com>
From: mycroft@mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Date: 10 Jun 1998 18:35:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs"'s message of Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:09:07 -0600
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"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> writes:

> >...an error made worse by the fact that, regardless of what the head
> >revision of the file has, revisions LACKING the notice are still available
> >via the exported RCS information.
> 
> And you still have legal recourse to defend your claim to that code
> regardless of whether the copyright is there or not.  Your legal rights are
> the same regardless of whether the user pulls the revision out of CVS that
> lacks your copyright or they delete the copyrights manually.

And you still are distributing a version that violates the license
(c.f. `must retain the above copyright notice, ...').  And we are
still informing you that you are doing so, which seems substantially
more courteous than immediately talking to a lawyer about it.


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