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On Thu, 8 Sep 2022, Warner Losh wrote:

> But it likely didn't matter, since 32v likely lost its copyright 
> protection due to AT&T distributing too many copies without the required 
> copyright markings. At least that was the preliminary ruling that caused 
> the suit to be settled... AT&T didn't want it finalized, though the cat 
> was somewhat out of the bag at this point...

It would be nice if that were an absolute rather than a probably, because 
then the status for 32V wouldn't be clouded.

-uso.