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by aaronrc 5578 days ago
" it may complicate existing and future legal matters"

Hope that's not going to be one of those "I invented the CD" type legal cases...

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of course not! There is nothing pending or even on the boil. Copyright law is just very tricky to manage. If you don't explicitly state which rights you wish to relinquish you can end up losing rights by default. The complication I was referring to was that I have very few (if any) records of organizations and distributors who correctly licensed the product. Peter T
Some ISPs owe Peter for distributing full copies without paying him, some do not because they paid at the time.

Those who owe money would not donate because of legal considerations (might look like an admission). Those who paid might be annoyed at being hit up for more money.

My fault entirely, Peter had nothing to do with it.