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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-19 17:37:24
bkuhn@ebb.org
USA is not the only US.
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@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ simply purchased on the installment plan rather than in whole.  Thus, we must
 
assume no works of software will fall into the public domain merely due to
 
the passage of time.
 

	
 
Nevertheless, under US law it is likely that the typical
 
Nevertheless, under USA law it is likely that the typical
 
disclaimers of copyright or public domain dedications we see in the
 
Free Software world would be interpreted by courts as copyright
 
abandonment, leading to a situation in which the user effectively receives a
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@@ -425,9 +425,9 @@ maximum grant of copyright freedoms, similar to a maximally-permissive
 
Free Software license.
 

	
 
The best example of software known to truly be in the public domain is software
 
that is published by the US government.  Under
 
that is published by the USA government.  Under
 
\href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105}{17 USC 101 \S~105}, all
 
works published by the USA Government are not copyrightable in the US.
 
works published by the USA Government are not copyrightable in the USA.
 

	
 
\subsection{Why Copyright Free Software?}
 

	
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