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biot on March 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

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.

kps on March 22, 2016 [–]

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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