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Re:PG: Arc Likely To Be Open-Sourced This Winter by sbraford on Monday January 14, 2008 @11:40PM (#98550)
curious: is there any difference between public domain and MIT?

they seem like ostensibly the same thing.

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Re:PG: Arc Likely To Be Open-Sourced This Winter by viergroupie on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @02:51PM (#98792)
There is no such thing as public domain for software. If you simply give your software away, it's still your copyrighted work...just without a license for other people to use it.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6225

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