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The libcurl maintainer got/gets emails[1] asking for technical support on people's cars because they likely stumbled across his email address in the mandatory license text.

1. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/



Reminds me also of this exchange the maintainer of thttpd had with a repo guy: http://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html


Or the time Tuttle (a city in Oklahoma) threatened to sue call the FBI on CentOS: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/

(I'm somewhat amused that the website in question still doesn't seem to work 13 years later.)




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