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The public domain contains works that have no copyright on them, either because the author dedicated it to the public domain or because copyright has expired.
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Does open source qualify as being part of the public domain?
In a copyright context, public domain is a term which means the set of creative works not under copyright, because the work's copyright has either expired, never existed (such as U.S. government works …
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Can I use BSD / MIT licensed code in a public-domain equivalent project?
You cannot license the work as a whole under CC0. You do not have the ability to commit other authors' work to the public domain or remove an author's requirement that distribution of their work inclu …
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"SQLite is illegal in Germany" - really?
I think "illegal" is not quite the right word (but it was in a quick parenthetical, so I don't expect perfect precision). I think the intent here was that SQLite not legally safe to use in Germany, si …
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Releasing software as Kopimi
The Wikipedia article you linked to notes:
While Kopimi may appear to be a radical free content license, in effect similar to Creative Commons Zero, no one associated with Piratbyrån ever called K …
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Buying a license to public domain software (where PD is recognized)?
If Hwaci is right, and they really have correctly licensed all their code (including code from external contributors) such that none of the code's authors (or any other person, e.g., a person whose co …
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