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Re: [spam] Re: Nullsoft's WASTE communication system

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Jun 1 16:42:24 2003

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To: johnbr@undefined.com
Cc: "Nick Lange" <nicklange@wi.rr.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com,
	"Bill Stewart" <bill.stewart@pobox.com>,
	"cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@lne.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 12:59:53 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>

In message <DBEJLLBKGOFDEGENOKOKCEHHCLAA.johnbr@undefined.com>, "John Brothers"
 writes:
>
>> Any license that you may
>> believe you acquired with the Software is void, revoked and terminated.
>
>
>Can you void and/or revoke the GPL?  

It doesn't matter if the GPL statement wasn't inserted by the real 
owner of the work.  Note that the employees almost certainly do not own 
the "work for hire" -- it would be Nullsoft/AOL Time Warner that does.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)



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