Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?

[Michael Brown]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de>
To: license-discuss at opensource.org <license-discuss at opensource.org>
Sent: Wed Sep 07 18:55:38 2011
Subject: Re: Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?

John Cowan <cowan <at> mercury.ccil.org> writes:

> 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.

I was thinking manually translating from, say, Perl into C.