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+Good morning --
+
+I was surprised to have received notice of a DMCA takedown complain from
+GitHub last night, and I am writing to dispute the claim.
+
+The code that I wrote and that you have temporarily removed from GitHub is
+wholly based on fundamental, widely-understood concepts and data
+structures, all of which have been well-documented in the literature. The
+code leverages non-proprietary, commonly used Python features and idioms
+best suited to (that is, most "Pythonic" for) implementing those concepts
+and data structures. And the code was and is authored solely by me (with
+the exception of a small change contributed to the documentation by a third
+party on GitHub under the terms of the code's BSD license). * *
+
+*Every line of code in the repository is my own, was written from scratch,
+modified and updated on my own time, and done without affiliation with any
+other individual or company.* In particular, I did not copy a single line
+of code from any known Bank of America copyrighted or otherwise proprietary
+material, and any and all similarities between my code and the code they
+claim a copyright for is purely coincidental and unintentional.
+
+In response to the DMCA takedown notice, thus, I assert the following:
+
+(1) My name is [private], and this constitutes an electronic signature
+for this document.
+
+(2) The material whose takedown notice I am disputing is located at
+http://adamdonahue.net/nodes.
+
+(3) I assert in good faith that the material was removed as a result of a
+mistake or misidentification on the part of Bank of America.
+
+(4) My contact information is as follows: [private]
+
+(5) I consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the
+judicial district of California, and if my address is outside of the United
+States, for any judicial district in which GitHub may be found, and that I
+will accept service of process from the person who provided notification or
+an agent of such person.
+
+Thank you for your time, and I look forward to continuing to use GitHub for
+my open source development efforts.
+
+Best regards,
+
+[private]