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Is Public Domain Software Open-Source?
Mar 1, 2008, 05 :00 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (6442 reads)
(Other stories by Stephen Shankland)

"When writing earlier this week about Adobe's sponsoring of the SQLite project, I ran into a complicated issue: is software released into the public domain also open-source software?
"I have an editor who hates headlines with question marks, but I'm afraid this time it's appropriate, because even experts disagree..."

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