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In message
<40212829-c02a-41ac-a2af-2b4cb3db9448@n10g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>, Paul 
Cager wrote:

> I agree that adding that notice to a Hello World program seems
> ridiculous and I probably wouldn't have bothered with it myself. But
> that type of notice (or its absence) is very important in Free
> Software ...

Only up (down) to a point. As I understand it, even the FSF themselves, for 
example, don’t worry about you accepting their contributor agreement before 
sending them a patch, unless the amount of code concerned gets up to some 
significant size.