Public domain software is not open-source?

[Alexander Terekhov]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Ernest Prabhakar
<ernest.prabhakar at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> [Are there links to these online?]

http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/239_F3d_1004.htm
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Micro_Star_v._FormGen_Inc.
http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html

[...]
> Q.  Is Public Domain software also "Open Source"?
>
> Not really, since it is not under an OSD-approved license.  However,
> truly public domain software can always be made available under an OSD
> compliant license, so in practice the issue is moot.

You must mean an OSD compliant contract that would have nothing to do
with copyright licensing to begin with. One just can't apply any
*copyright* license to "truly public domain software".

regards,
alexander.

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