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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dataplot (category Public-domain software with source code)
Dataplot is a public domain software system for scientific visualization and statistical analysis. It was developed and is being maintained at the National...
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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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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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LaTeXML (category Public-domain software with source code)
LaTeXML is a free public domain software package which converts LaTeX documents to XML, HTML, EPUB, JATS and TEI. LaTeXML's primary output format is an...
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TempleOS (category Public-domain software with source code)
"TempleOS". TempleOS is a 64-bit, non-preemptive multi-tasking, multi-cored, public domain, open source, ring-0-only, single address space, non-networked, PC operating...
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ADMS (category Public-domain software)
Automatic Device Model Synthesizer (ADMS) is public domain software used in the semiconductor industry to translate Verilog-A models into C-models which...
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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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Qmail (category Public-domain software with source code)
Sendmail program. Originally license-free software, qmail's source code was later dedicated to the public domain by the author. When first published, qmail...
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been one of the most popular software licenses in the free and open-source software (FOSS) domain. Prominent free software programs licensed under the...
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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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Djbdns (category Public-domain software with source code)
Bernstein released djbdns into the public domain. Previously the package was distributed free of charge as license-free software. However this did not permit...
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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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Template Numerical Toolkit (category Public-domain software with source code)
Free and open-source software portal The Template Numerical Toolkit (or TNT) is a software library for manipulating vectors and matrices in C++ created...
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