New Copyright Notice For Unlicensed Code

When I release and publish code, I typically make it Free Software by copyrighting it and applying a license (usually GNU GPL).  In cases of smaller code bases or scripts I write, I don't bother to license them.  They are generally used as small tools or code snippets.

One choice is to release it as Public Domain.  Being in the public domain is not a license.  It means the material is not copyrighted and no license is needed. However, I want to retain copyrights but allow others the freedom to do anything.  This is based on trust of the author, not a license or an any official law speak.

To make the point clear that I don't care, I adapted Woody Guthrie's Copyright notice to apply to my software.

My new Copyright Notice for unlicensed code:

Copyright (c) 2008, Corey Goldberg (corey@goldb.org)

"This code is Copyrighted, and anybody caught usin' it without my permission, will be mighty good friends of mine, cause I don't give a dern.  Run it.  Study it.  Modify it.  Improve it.  Distribute it.  Yodel it.  I wrote it, that's all I wanted to do."

Feel free to use this notice on any software you publish, cause I don't give a dern.