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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Copylefting
Message-ID: <33471@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 89 00:00:41 GMT
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>I'd just like to clarify that public domain (PD) software DOES carry a
>copyright.  However, the PD copyright notice explicitly grants all rights to
>the public at large -- except the right to be identified as the creator of
>the original software.... 

Unfortunately, if you're going to clarify, try to do so correctly. Public
domain has a very specific meaning: there is no restrictions to the rightss
of the work. In other words, no copyrights. You can create a work that has a
copyright that allows complete redistribution (or redistribution with few
limitations) but that work is not public domain.


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