Please add "Public Domain" to "license" list - FSF accepts this.

David A. Wheeler dwheeler at dwheeler.com
Fri Mar 14 19:02:11 UTC 2003


Oh, if it's any help - the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
specifically states that "public domain software" meets the
Free Software definition (and that they believe it meets
the open source definition also). See this:
 http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html

It would be odd if public domain software source code
wasn't open source software; it meets every criteria of the
OSD, and older versions of the OSD made it clear that
public domain software is open source software.



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