1) It's not a "legally castrated copyright", it's a tool that we use to enforce a behavioral pattern that encourages growth of the commons. 2) Why should we fe

1) It's not a "legally castrated copyright", it's a tool that we use to enforce a behavioral pattern that encourages growth of the commons. 2) Why should we feel "happy" when you've pulled a bait-and-switch, and acted as a bully? Your behavior and mindset are grossly at odds with the purpose of open source. Your effort was a trojan horse that's disruptive to the community. In short: You literally missed the point of "open source" entirely. 3) You explicitly stated that the algorithm is "not in the public domain", so falling back to a position that one can merely use Metaphone3.java is disingenuous. Java source is not useful or suitable to those of us in the Ruby world. We don't want to have to deal with the added overhead of a JVM. 4) Don't expect to be welcomed when you act like a bully, because you didn't know what the hell you were doing. It's not our job to teach you what the BSD license means, or what the difference between a copyright and a patent is. 5) Don't let the door hit you on the butt on your way out!