Actual case of hoarding public domain code?

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From: Rich McAllister
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 19:06

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The justification for copyleft rather than just putting free software in the
public domain seems to be "if it's not copyrighted, some Evil Hoarder could
take it, make some trivial changes, copyright it, and then sue all the
people who use the original PD product, or derive code from it."

Does anyone know of a case where this actually happened?

Rich McAllister (rfm@sun.com)

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From: rfm@urth (Rich McAllister)
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Subject: Actual case of hoarding public domain code?
Summary: I don't know of one, do you?
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