Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> What bothered
>> me was that they changed it to state that they create it. 
> 
> Mayeb you intended differently, but by putting your code in PD you
> allowed that.

That's what I ended up learning. After that I came up with a few
'Licenses' which basically said, you can use it for free (if not
used in a commercial product) and give me credit. At least up
until the GPL came out.

>> That's plagiarism and that's what bothered me.
> 
> Plagiarism is AFAIK something entirely different: it is claiming that
> you wrote something. A common vice in the academic world. But quite
> different from claiming that you wn (the rights to) something.

Well in my mind I thought I did. I considered it my work. Of course
placing it in the public domain wasn't a good idea. Live and
learn.

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