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At 08:28 PM 8/18/2000, David Kelly wrote:

>Lacking any other governing conditions you have some but not unlimited 
>rights to copyright. GPL is a pre-exsiting condition. The originator's 
>copyright is a pre-existing condition. Anonymous changes will not have 
>a copyright and will bear the copyright of the original document as 
>that document was distributed with one and only one copyright notice.

Only if they're anonymous. Even then, some of the author's rights to
the work are inalienable according to the Berne Convention.

--Brett



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