On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 16:57, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 20030126T125505-0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > > One is that software must comply with the DFSG to be a > > part of Debian, and yet the DFSG does not admit the possibility of > > public-domain unlicensed software. > > As far as I know, public-domain software does not exist. The only way > for a program to enter the public domain would be for it to be so old > that its author has been dead for 70 years. There was no software 70 > years ago. A decent reference on public domain in the USA is available here: http://www.benedict.com/info/publicDomain/publicDomain.asp For example: * "Federal documents and publications are not copyrighted, and therefore are considered to be in the Public Domain", and * "The public domain contains all works which previously had copyright protection, but which subsequently lost that protection due to pilot error." Regards, Brian
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