PE>> It is this that I am trying to avoid, and I thought making it
 PE>> PD enabled this.

 RS> Nope, it doesnt, Public Domain, means what it says, its in the Public
 RS> Domain, and thats a different thing to being copyrighted. And if you
 RS> think about it for a moment, your proposition doesnt make sense at its
 RS> most fundamental, because if you could really do what you want to do,
 RS> public domain would be meaningless. Whatever the original author of the
 RS> codes intention was with the public domain code could be nullified by
 RS> the act changing two words and its not longer public domain. The law
 RS> doesnt allow that. For that damned good reason.

Nope, the way I "thought about it for a moment" is that the original
(byte for byte) copy of the code is free for anyone to use.  Any
DERIVED version is theirs.  If anyone copies THEIR version, they
will get their head stomped in.  If anyone copies the ORIGINAL
version, there's no problem.  It is only HIS version that would
cease to be public domain by the addition of two words.  Public
domain would remain meaningful under my scenario.  BFN.  Paul.
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