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I was going to say it only takes about 30 seconds to fork and change the license if you want to. Then I decided to check if someone had already done so. Yep. https://github.com/ivegotasthma/coreutils/commit/4c7dcbd912a...

I didn't count, but that may have taken less than 30 seconds.



Is that valid? The original license had:

  > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
  > included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
As those have now been stripped away, it seems like a license violation.


You don't have to be a lawyer to recognize that as a genuine bona fide electrified six-car copyright violation. You just have to be able to read.




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