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Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 | Internet Archive Blogs (blog.archive.org)
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[–] vonxylofon 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just FYI, most open source software is not in public domain, it is protected by the same copyright we are talking about here, except the author made it available under certain conditions (the licence).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good point, I didn't even think of that because the GPL and MIT are so permissive.

[–] vonxylofon 1 points 3 weeks ago

The MIT is, but GPL is actually very restrictive. For example, it disallows publishing derivative works without those being licensed under the same terms (or newer GPL versions). That's why commercial companies are reluctant to use GPL-licensed code in their products.