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In article <4426@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:

   In article <NELSON.89Oct16205843@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
   >
   >The problem with public domain code is this: If I want my code to be
   >and remain freely available, I can't put it in the public domain.  If
   >I do, someone can take my code and mix it with theirs.  My code effectively
   >becomes theirs.  This is not acceptable to me.

   It is to me.
Right.  What we have here is a difference of opinion about whether this is
acceptable or not.

   In fact, the whole misinformation bit about PD stuff is quite
   tiring.
But it is *not* misinformation.  If *I* want all of my code to be distributed
with source, and someone uses some code that I have put into the PD and, for
whatever reasons of their own, refuses to distribute source, I have no
recourse.  They are using my code in a way that is anathema to me.

I accept that you don't care if some/all of your code is distributed without
source.  I presume that you accept that I *do* care.
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