> of silly excuses like "you distributed it in your webpage, therefore
> I don't have to listen what you are actually saying; by doing that you
> have relinquished all rights to your own work to me."

You're the one exaggerating now, nobody expects to relinquish all rights 
just because you put your program on your webpage for free download 
(without any message that you have to pay for it or it is limited use 
etc.). What people do expect, is that you have relinquished your right 
to then *charge* the people who downloaded it. That is likely illegal 
sales practise in most places and the sort of thing that consumer 
protection agencies frown upon.

> (It doesn't matter
> that the law is on the author's side. It also doesn't matter that *morally*
> it's wrong to use the work when the author explicitly says that he doesn't
> want you to.)

The law is not on the author's side - an author can't give you something 
for free then come around a week later and demand you pay for it.

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