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						        May 28, 1974






Professor Daniel P. Friedman
Computer Science Department
Indiana University
101 Lindley Hall
Bloomington, Indiana 47401


Dear Professor Friedman:

\J	I do not consider that a release should be required in order to acknowledge
someone's work, and therefore, if the reference to me is courteous and innocuous,
as I suppose it is, I will not sign a release since I don't want to encourage 
legal officiousness.  If you think your reference to me borders on libel, then
show me what you propose to say, and I'll sign the release if I think the 
comment fair, even if I disagree with it.\.




							Sincerely yours,



							John McCarthy
							Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
							Professor of Computer Science