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Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
>>For code.
>>I have never seen such claims made for documentation, since it's much
>>easier to remove and deal with infringing docs than code.
> 
> 
> I have seen such statements, by RMS himself.

removing stuff is a remedy for copyright violation, for which
a liability still exists. it is preferable to avoid any
possible infringement in the first place.