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posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 26.03.2022, 20:44

> I see one major difference between code placed into the 'public domain'
> and code that's under GPL, MIT, BSD and other various licenses.
> (All of which require that the modified code must be released
> along with the resulting program)
>
> That difference being that 'public domain' does _not_ require
> modified code the be released along with its resulting program.

This is wrong. One of the few effective differences between public domain dedications and permissive choices such as MIT style or 3-/2-/0-clause BSD licenses is that of attribution. It is valid to tuck away that attribution somewhere in the documentation. Only copyleft licenses require that "modified code be released along with its resulting program".

(The other difference is that public domain may not be recognised in some places. This is the reason for CC-Zero.)

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