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   What is public domain content on Wikipedia?

   • For the content guidelines regarding the use of public domain content on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Public domain. The public domain ( PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable.

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   What is the difference between public domain and free software?

   • While public domain gives up the author's exclusive rights (e.g. copyright), in free software the author's copyright is still retained and used, for instance, to enforce copyleft or to hand out permissive-licensed software. Licensed software is in general not in the public domain.

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   Are public domain software licenses necessary?

   • While real public domain makes software licenses unnecessary, as no owner/author is required to grant permission ("Permission culture"), there are licenses that grant public-domain-like rights. There is no universally agreed-upon license, but there are multiple licenses that aim to release source code into the public domain.

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   What is the difference between public domain and copyright?

   • According to James Boyle this definition underlines common usage of the term public domain and equates the public domain to public property and works in copyright to private property. However, the usage of the term public domain can be more granular, including for example uses of works in copyright permitted by copyright exceptions.

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   Public-domain software is software that has been placed in the public domain, in other words, software for which there is absolutely no ownership such as copyright, trademark, or patent. Software in the public domain can be modified, distributed, or sold even without any attribution by anyone; this is unlike the common case of software under ...

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   There are multiple licenses which aim to release works into the public domain. In 2000 the WTFPL was released as a public domain like software license. Creative Commons (created in 2002 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred) has introduced several public-domain-like licenses, called Creative Commons licenses. These give authors of ...

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   Category. : Public-domain software. Help. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Public domain software. Free and open-source software portal. This category is for software that has been formally released to the public domain, so there is no copyright restriction on it, worldwide.

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   Laura Payne. Public domain, category of creative works that are unprotected by intellectual property law. Since these works cannot be owned, they are free for anyone to use, adapt, reproduce, or distribute for commercial and noncommercial purposes. Creative work falls into the public domain for a variety of.

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   Dec 19, 2022 · Public-domain software is a type of software that you can use without the permission of or payment to the author. Such software has no legal, copyright, or editing restrictions, so no one owns the right to restrict or control its use. A few examples of public-domain software are SQLite, I2P, and SHA-3. See also Freeware.

   Title	Original Release	Relicensed Release	Initial Free Relicense
   3D Movie Maker	1995	2022	MIT
   Adobe Flex	2004	2007	MPL-1.1
   AdvFS	1990s	2008	GPL-2.0-only
   Apache Derby	1996	2004	Apache-2.0

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   Public domain in the United States. Works are in the public domain if they are not covered by the intellectual property right known as copyright, or if the intellectual property rights to the works have expired. [1] Works automatically enter the public domain when their copyright has expired. [2]

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   This is a list of notable software packages which were published under a proprietary software license but later released as free and open-source software, or into the public domain. In some cases, the company continues to publish proprietary releases alongside the non-proprietary version.

   Title	Original Release	Relicensed Release	Initial Free Relicense
   3D Movie Maker	1995	2022	MIT
   Adobe Flex	2004	2007	MPL-1.1
   AdvFS	1990s	2008	GPL-2.0-only
   Apache Derby	1996	2004	Apache-2.0

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