Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?

[John Cowan]

Thorsten Glaser scripsit:

> Hm, so translating into another language is enough? (That is not a big
> problem in the IT realm…)

I was thinking of translation by hand from and into a natural language,
which always involves creativity.  Google Translate would probably not
cut it, nor would a "mechanical" translation of a program whether done
by another program or by a person acting purely according to mechanical
rules.

But now we are deep in the weeds even for license-discuss: we are no
longer discussing licenses, but ways to get around the lack of a license
in obscure and unlikely circumstances.  So I'm done with this thread.

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