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Signal used to threaten people for trademark infringement because the word "signal" was in the protocol on the wire.

I think they've relaxed this quite a bit more recently





Oracle, Nintendo and Apple have all tried this "copyrighted text / logo / poem" thing, never works out for them. For interoperability you're allowed to replicate those parts.



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