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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com>
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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Kevin P. Neal wrote:

> At 10:57 PM 8/27/96 -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >>Me: When has a BSD-style copyright not been enough to keep code on the net?
> >>
> >>Reece: The original CMU AFS code had a BSD-style copyright on it. Where 
> >>       can it be found now?
> >>
> >>Me: Oh. Is that our pizza?
> >
> >The reason that you can't find AFS anymore is because when the AFS
> >people left CMU to form Transarc, one of the conditions of them buying
> >the rights to AFS was to remove AFS from CMU's FTP sites and the sites
> >of other places on the net (I don't quite know how they got the other
> >sites to get rid of the code, though).
> 
> Exactly the situation he wants to avoid.

  How?  Licences can't protect the software from the developer of the
software :)

  The only way to stop your friend from taking his "new AFS" corporate
after making it, is to kill him after he is done :)

Tom