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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:

> Who said anything about "by mistake"?  If you release under
> a particular license, it's on purpose.

Unless it's by mistake. :)

> Works only if they terminate the already outstanding licenses:
> Ex Post Facto.

Or if the court terminates a license term which was mistakenly agreed to
by the contracting parties.  I think they call it "equity".  I'm not
positive, but I seem to recall courts doing things like that when it
finds that some kinds/levels of "uninjustice" is being done which is
not addressed by normal law.