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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: A PD complex number capability
Message-ID: <6590214@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 17:12:15 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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> 'Copyright' and 'public domain' are as mutually exclusive as black and
> white. I suggest you change the statement to one of:

I haven't been able to get my hands on the local copyright text to verify
this, but the below statement was my intent.  Consider it so modified.

  Copyright (C) 1989 James L. Adcock. This work is
  for use without restriction, for the common good of the people.
  Please do not add copyright notices to simple derivations of this work.


I continue to ask that people using it not add their copyright notices to
trivial derivations of the work, since this confuses the ownership issue,
making the software unuseable by anyone.  I personally consider the practice
of adding a copyright notice to a trivially modified piece of software an 
act of plagiarism.  Likewise, I would consider adding a copyleft  
to this software offensive.  If people send me reliable bug information, I
will try to post "fixed" versions.