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    SubjectRe: Wasting our Freedom
    Hello!

    On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:19:41PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
    >[...]

    >If you take work that's under a dual-license and remove one license notice
    >from it when you create a derivative work, every recipient of that
    >derivative work still receives a dual license from the original author to
    >every protectable element still in the distributed work.

    But you may *not* remove the license notices on GPL/BSD dual-licensed
    works. *Both* forbid removing the licensing terms.

    >[...]

    >2) You can remove a BSD license notice from BSD-only code. (The BSD license
    >prohibits this.)

    The BSD license prohibits this anyway, regardless of whether BSD is the
    only license or not (dual-licensing). Heck, copyright law itself forbids
    it unless explicitly allowed.

    >DS

    Kind regards,

    Hannah.
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