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Being in the public domain is not a license; rather, it means the
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material is not copyrighted and no license is needed. Practically
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speaking, though, if a work is in the public domain, it might as well
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have an all-permissive non-copyleft free software license. Public
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domain material is compatible with the GNU GPL.
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If you want to release your work to the public domain, we encourage
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you to use formal tools to do so. We ask people who make small
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contributions to GNU to sign a disclaimer form; that's one
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solution. If you're working on a project that doesn't have formal
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contribution policies like that, CC0 is a good tool that anyone can
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use. It formally dedicates your work to the public domain, and
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provides a fallback license for cases where that is not legally
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possible.
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http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:CC0
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Source: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PublicDomain
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