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In article <OZ.92Jan15111242@ursa.sis.yorku.ca> oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:

   nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:

      No, once your code has been incorporated into a commercial product,
      *that copy* becomes nonsharable.  It doesn't matter that the public
      domain version is still sharable, someone has made a copy that cannot
      be shared.

   It does very much matter that the public domain version (the original) 
   is still sharable, and will forever be that way, by definition, and by
   law. The notion of Public Domainness does include the possibility that
   some instances may be made unsharable, but of course by definition the
   act of unsharing is no longer meaningful.

"Boy I wish I had the same {foo} as that commercial package.  Oh well,
I guess I'll have to reverse engineer it."

I can easily imagine someone saying this.  I might even have said it
myself.  The act of unsharing has *very much* meaning.  Perhaps the
commercial package would include a pointer to the public domain code
that they used.  When was the last time you saw that happen?

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