Public-domain software is software that has been placed in the public domain, in other words, software for which there is absolutely no ownership such...
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the public domain. In 2000, the "Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License" (WTFPL) was released as a public-domain-equivalent license for software. It...
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The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been...
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Open-source license (redirect from List of OSI-approved software licences)
permissive software license as a fallback. In jurisdictions that do not accept a public domain waiver, the permissive license takes effect. Public domain waivers...
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to the 1990s software culture, the "free software" concept combined the nowadays differentiated software classes of public domain software, Freeware, Shareware...
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copyright", software was not considered copyrightable. Therefore, software had no licenses attached and was shared as public-domain software. The CONTU...
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solves. GAMS became public in 1985. It indexes Netlib and other packages, some of them public domain software and some proprietary software. Altman, Micah;...
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Works are in the public domain if they are not covered by the intellectual property right known as copyright, or if the intellectual property rights to...
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The historical precursor to FOSS was the hobbyist and academic public domain software ecosystem of the 1960s to 1980s. Free and open-source operating...
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older usage of "free software" as public-domain software. (See Gratis versus libre.) The first formal definition of free software was published by FSF...
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License-free software is computer software that is not explicitly in the public domain, but the authors appear to intend free use, modification, distribution...
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AT&T UNIX PC (section Public domain software)
Piiceon Model SR-2048 (2 MB) RAM expansion card The STORE! was a public domain software repository provided by AT&T and accessible via dialup UUCP. The...
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limitations, time decays or expiring dates to the license terms of use. Public-domain software is a type of FOSS which is royalty-free and - openly or reservedly-...
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WTFPL (redirect from DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE)
permissive free software license. As a public domain like license, the WTFPL is essentially the same as dedication to the public domain. It allows redistribution...
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WorldWideWeb (category Public-domain software with source code)
released the source code of WorldWideWeb into the public domain. Several versions of the software are still available on the web in various states. Berners-Lee...
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List of open-source video games (redirect from List of free software games)
assembled from and are themselves open-source software, including public domain games with public domain source code. This list also includes games in...
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computer to recover data from iPhones. Free Software portal Law portal List of free and open source software packages Spenneberg, Ralf (2008). "Recovering...
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been collaborative with a strong push to keep the source code in the public domain. This makes Citadel one of the oldest surviving FOSS projects.[citation...
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original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 21, 2025. "Using CC0 for public domain software". Creative Commons. April 15, 2011. Archived from the original on...
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(Networking and Cryptography Library, pronounced "salt") is a public domain, high-speed software library for cryptography. NaCl was created by the mathematician...
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Pdf-parser (category Public-domain software with source code)
Free and open-source software portal Pdf-parser is a command-line program that parses and analyses PDF documents. It provides features to extract raw data...
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Kiki the nano bot (category Public-domain software with source code)
Litter on Inside Mac Games by Galen Wiley (3 December 2002) Official website at sourceforge.net Free and open-source software portal Video games portal...
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RBBS-PC (category Public-domain software with source code)
Board System for the Personal Computer) was a freeware, open-source BBS software program. It was written entirely in BASIC by a large team of people, starting...
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software is a large and growing body of free software that exists in the public domain. Public-domain software is written by microcomputer hobbyists (also...
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not covered by any known patents. The reference implementation is public domain software. The original Curve25519 paper defined it as a Diffie–Hellman (DH)...
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public domain. In some cases, the company continues to publish proprietary releases alongside the non-proprietary version. Free and open-source software portal...
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Ezmlm (category Public-domain software with source code)
only works with the qmail mail transfer agent. It is released into the public domain. The latest version, 0.53, came out in 1997. The related program ezmlm-idx...
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XZ Utils (category Public-domain software with source code)
various versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The resulting software xz and liblzma binaries are public domain, unless the optional LGPL getopt...
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EdDSA (category Public-domain software with source code)
Peter Schwabe, and Bo-Yin Yang. The reference implementation is public-domain software. The following is a simplified description of EdDSA, ignoring details...
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attempting to release software to the public domain, on the grounds that this can be legally problematic in some jurisdictions. Public-domain-equivalent licenses...
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