From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 9:05:00 PM UTC+11, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > > It is certainly not "unowned" in the sense that the first    
   > > person who finds it can pick it up and claim ownership    
   > > of it.   
      
   > "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 as copyright, trademark, or patent. Software in the public domain can be   
   modified, distributed, or    
   sold even without any attribution by anyone; this is unlike the common case of   
   software under exclusive copyright, where software licenses grant limited   
   usage rights."    
      
   No individual or other subset of the public owns it.   
      
   The public as a whole can do what they want with it   
   because they effectively, as a whole, own it.   
      
   Semantic debate though. What would be the difference   
   between public ownership and no ownership?   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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