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Re:Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for th... by wlesieutre on Sunday October 08, 2017 @08:04PM (#15430707)
Article author probably doesn't realize there's a distinction between "publicly available" and "public domain"
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Re:Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for th... by iiv on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:45AM (#15431792)
Article author is probably a lawyer (or at least proof-read by a lawyer), so that sounds strange.
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Re:Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for th... by kuschku on Monday October 09, 2017 @06:13AM (#15432641)
German law doesn't have a public domain, so Apache license is as close as you can get.
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Re:Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for th... by giancarlostoro on Monday October 09, 2017 @08:42AM (#15433317)
Why wouldn't MIT or BSD License be closer?
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Re:Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for th... by kuschku on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:01AM (#15434327)
Apache2 has an explicit patent license.
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