[License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?

[Russ Nelson]

Richard Fontana writes:
 > There are strange things I've seen in my time, like "public domain for
 > noncommercial purposes". We would treat that as
 > nonfree/non-open-source.

I've seen "copyrighted public domain software".

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