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Michael, The "freely distributable" lines in uploads are put there by the authors or with the author's permission. Thus, they properly follow copyright law…no distribution without the author's permission…and in this case, the author (or owner of the copyright) gave permission. If you have files that contain copyright notices, yet within the distribution there is no notification that the copyright holder has given their permission to distribute the files…then those files may not be distributed. For example, anything I write and distribute, I embed a copyright notice in it. But I also enclose a readme file that contains my permission to freely distribute the file, but not to sell it or include it in a commercial program and only so long as the readme file is included with the distribution. That is my "license" terms. All other rights remain with me. FYI, all programs are copyrighted, with or without a copyright notice, Don