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ghafftoday at 2:07 PM1 replyview on HN

There are also potential legal issues with public domain, especially in Europe where some rights can't always be disclaimed. There are OSI open source public domain licenses like the MIT-0 license.


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johannes1234321today at 3:16 PM

Correct, but still many projects use OS(I) licenses, which are beyond MIT-0. Thus some form of copyright is deemed relevant.