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578: Public Domain with Request from Author
This document is in the public domain. The author requests, however,
that semantically altered versions are not distributed without
permission of the author, assuming the author can be contacted without
an unreasonable effort.
579: Public domain {--Public-Domain}
You may use this program, or
* code or tables extracted from it, as desired without restriction.
*
580: Public-domain
Public Domain
581: Public-domain {--Public-Domain}
Public domain software is software that is not copyrighted. If the source code is in the public domain,
that is a special case of noncopylefted free software, which means that some copies or modified
versions may not be free at all.
In some cases, an executable program can be in the public domain but the source code is not available.
This is not free software, because free software requires accessibility of source code. Meanwhile, most
free software is not in the public domain; it is copyrighted, and the copyright holders have legally given
permission for everyone to use it in freedom, using a free software license.
Sometimes people use the term "public domain" in a loose fashion to mean "free" or "available gratis."
However, "public domain" is a legal term and means, precisely, "not copyrighted". For clarity, we