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"Public Domain"

By Juergen Haas, About.com

Definition: Public Domain: Software that is available to be used and modified by anyone, for any purpose, and may even be incorporated for distribution in commercial software. Public domain software is not copyrighted, and no rights are retained by the author. (Also, see Open Source and Shareware.)

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Source: I-gloss [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-D/ Linux Dictionary V 0.16
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
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