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Correct. The termination clauses has an interesting - if somewhat unlikely - effect on software.

FLOSS software which depend on the ability to distribute new copies could have their license terminated after the 35 years, given that said software still existed in large enough volume to qualify for copyright status. The first thing I can think of would be the TCP/IP stack that was created in BSD, that if terminated could cause some serious problems for Apple and other OS that depend on that code.



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