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I have spent that time because there were lots of third parties out there in the world who were concerned about assertions of copyright problems that Mr. McBride was making. I have confronted wraithlike examples of what were said to be derivative work but weren't derivative work under copyright law, or asserted copyright claims that turned out to be based on code that nobody owned ascertainably and had been in the public domain for a lengthy period of time, or code that Mr. McBride claimed he was entitled to prevent people to stop using long after he had deliberately given to people that very code under promises that they could use it, copy, modify it and distribute any way that they want.