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Author: Rick Moen
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Browsers
Quoting Arnt Karlsen (arnt@???):

> ..make it GPLv2, v3 is too kind on violators. ;o)


Steve leans strongly towards permissive licensing, of the MIT-ish
flavour.

Copyright violation is actually possible under permissive licences, too:
The obvious way is to wrongfully remove another contributor's copyright
notice from incumbent source code -- as a judge found AT&T Bell Labs to
have done in his preliminary ruling in the AT&T v. UC Regents lawsuit
(the BSD lawsuit), just before the case was quietly settled. But
they're rare, because you have to be kind of a colossal idiot to violate
them.

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