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In article <26633@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes:
>In article <12344@pur-ee.UUCP> hankd@pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz) writes:
....

I'd just like to clarify that public domain (PD) software DOES carry a
copyright.  However, the PD copyright notice explicitly grants all rights to
the public at large -- except the right to be identified as the creator of
the original software....  This is exactly how research results published in
journals are treated:  the text is copyrighted, the authors must be given
due credit for their work, but everyone is free to build upon that work.

This certainly isn't all a copyleft implies.  Copyleft implies a profound
form of transitive ownership rights, and it is this aspect I find disturbing.
Someone who modifies your PD code shouldn't have any obligation to you other
than to acknowledge, by appropriate citation, your prior work.

Of course, this is just my opinion.

							-hankd