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recommend using "public domain" for that meaning only, and using other terms to convey the other
meanings.
Under the Berne Convention, which most countries have signed, anything written down is automatically
copyrighted. This includes programs. Therefore, if you want a program you have written to be in the
public domain, you must take some legal steps to disclaim the copyright on it; otherwise, the program is
copyrighted.
582: Public-domain {--Public-Domain}
This file was released into the public domain
583: Public-domain {--Public-Domain}
Released into the Public Domain by Ulrich Drepper <[e-mail]>.
584: Python v2.1.1 or later
A. HISTORY OF THE SOFTWARE
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Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting
Mathematisch Centrum (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor of a
language called ABC. Guido is Python's principal author, although it
includes many contributions from others. The last version released
from CWI was Python 1.2. In 1995, Guido continued his work on Python
at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) in Reston,
Virginia where he released several versions of the software. Python
1.6 was the last of the versions released by CNRI. In 2000, Guido and
the Python core development team moved to BeOpen.com to form the
BeOpen PythonLabs team. Python 2.0 was the first and only release