If you don't want your pennies, feel free to send them to me. I'll take 'em. There were over 10 billion pennies made in 1998. I'll take half of them, unless you want to give me more.

How many stairs will that be to the top? And tourists are supposed to make it?

Why not submit the source code as evidence like the SF DA did in the Terry Childs case?
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/25/229229

That way
A) it's legal
B) it goes into the public domain

Problem solved.