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That makes a good deal of sense, since not all countries recognize the existence of public domain as a concept or the right of authors to dedicate their work to
by jkaplowitz 6y ago
That makes a good deal of sense, since not all countries recognize the existence of public domain as a concept or the right of authors to dedicate their work to it before copyright expiration. (These cases are both mentioned on the link you provided.)
- ghaff 6y agoThat's the reason why the original MIT license (X Consortium license) came into being. The developers wanted to get rid of headaches associated with the proprietary license but at least one of the companies involved wouldn't touch making the code public domain. So MIT's lawyers came up with the MIT license.