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Is Public Domain Software Open-Source?

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Stephen Shankland
Mar 1, 2008

“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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