On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:47:44PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Shyamal writes: > > Most of the software is already copyrighted. > > _All_ of it is copyrighted. There is no software old enough to have > entered into the public domain.
Software can be placed into the public domain by deliberate action of the (former) copyright holder. See our own mime-support package for an example, or the md5sum implementation in dpkg. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
