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> redhat customizes many of the software that they include in their =
> product.  They include redhat branding and make other changes as they =
> see fit.  I have no idea whether they customize gaim but even if they =
> did Adam needs to look to see if there is a copyright notice on redhat =
> linux and not some independent release of gaim that has nothing to do =
> with the one for which redhat took responsibility because it was =
> included with redhat's product.  redhat does include a copyright notice =
> in its product and it shouuld apply to everything in its product.

Blimey I know MS has a history of putting it's copyright onto other
people's work (such as doublespace  Stac) but this is amazing.

There is not an "independant release of gaim", merely a release
of gaim. Gaim is owned by the people who wrote it. 

So let's see if I've got this right, if Sony of Dell bundle Windows with
their product then they get to put their copyright onto Windows?

& if the MS-EU deal resolves to including competing products then MS will put
it's copyright onto GAIM, Mozilla, Real player etc?

That should make some lawyers very rich.

Adam

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