From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm
Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm
Title: public domain software control
Article-I.D.: ucb.1505
Posted: Tue Jul 13 23:17:47 1982
Received: Wed Jul 14 05:48:58 1982

>From LEOR@Mit-Mc Tue Jul 13 23:17:32 1982
I second smb's solution, if not as a solution then at least as a good idea:
anyone who puts software in the public domain should attach to it, in a form
as likely as possible to stay with it, a note regarding desireable uses of
the software. This might not prove particularly enforceable legally, but
at least there would be more pressure on the opportunists to not consider
a ripoff. An example: On my BDS C distributiton disks, there is a lot of code
(both in C and in assembly language) that I essentially think of as in the
public domain. That is why I stuffed it all into the cpm bds-c archives. But
I didn't put any copyright notice on it or anything; subsequently, my code
has shown up in places like the Supersoft C library, and naturally I don't
get any credit for it! So, I wish I had put copyright notices. Sigh.
	-leor