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