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Subject: Public Domain vs. Copyrighted
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Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 09:20:59 EST
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(Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa> wrote:
>? ... Public domain means that the program can be sold, etc - 
>? no one owns it, while the GNU copyright restricts the use.
>
>So if anyone can do anything with it, one can slap the GNU copyright
>on it. That doesn't mean they *own* it, but the value is that people
>*think* thay do. ...

Not quite, once something has been distributed as public domain, it
can't be copyrighted.

-Dave Sill
 dsill@nswc-oas.arpa