Reply to post: Re: Public Domain

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MarkMLl

Re: Public Domain

No. "public domain" in general implies res nullius, i.e. nobody owns it and there are no strings attached. FOSS is owned, and that ownership is enforced to a sufficient extent to allow one of the FOSS licenses to govern its distribution.

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