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If you don't get copyright protection on the source, you are so screwed, and won't win a court battle.
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This is somewhat off the topic, but I suppose it can be mentioned here. While I don't see the potential to become "screwed" by posting your robot's program on the internet, the possibility is certainly present for other areas. As I mentioned in my earlier response (somewhat in passing), I used the GNU GPL on my open source project. For information on this (and a great source for background information for a report) you can visit the GNU website, or specifically, the location of the GPL:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
For those not familar with it, note that it is not a copyright proection in the normal sense: it is, in fact, "copy left"! Basically, if you distribute your code open source then it states that anyone else that modifies your code and then distributes it must include the same liscense you did (the GPL), and must, by extension, include the source code. That is, they cannot modify your code, make the application closed source, and then sell it to someone else. Its really pretty interesting, and a good source for open source licenses is
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/