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Public-domain software [12] Public domain: Text: The original text adventure game by Crowther and Woods. Core War: 1984 1984 Programming game: Various (public domain, BSD, GPL) [13] Various Text: Original created by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney, and continued through the present day by the community. Crossfire: 1992 2019 MMORPG: GPL-2.0-or ...
Escape from Tarkov is a multiplayer tactical first-person shooter video game in development by Battlestate Games for Microsoft Windows.The game is set in the fictional Norvinsk region in northwestern Russia, where a war is taking place between two private military companies (United Security "USEC" and the Battle Encounter Assault Regiment "BEAR").
Some books are in the public domain, others are not. DICT.org: Collection of dictionary databases in the public domain or under other free or semi-free licenses including GFDL consist of several public domain and semi-free dictionary resources.. Open Music Registry - works under Open Audio License.
TIGER Map Service Creates public domain maps (in GIF format) from U.S. Census Bureau data. U.S. National Atlas Creates public domain maps (in SDTS, E00, Shape and TIFF formats) from U.S. Department of the Interior data. planiglobe online map creation Generates maps from public domain data. Postscript and Adobe Illustrator versions can be ...
Public-domain software was commercialized sometimes by a donationware model, asking the users for a financial donation to be sent by mail. [10] The public-domain "free sharing" and donationware commercialization models evolved in the following years to the (non-voluntary) shareware model, [11] [12] and software free of charge, called freeware. [13]
If public domain work is included in a copyrighted product then the new product is not public domain. The portions of the new copyrighted work that are from a public domain source may be removed and copied without permission. For example when a public domain text is included in a Wikipedia article any additional text or new creative elements ...
The Unlicense software license, published around 2010, offers a public-domain waiver text with a fall-back public-domain-like license, inspired by permissive licenses but without an attribution clause. [12] [13] In 2015 GitHub reported that approximately 102,000 of their 5.1 million licensed projects, or 2%, use the Unlicense. [note 3]
Robert A. Baron argues in his essay "Making the Public Domain Public" that "because the public domain is not a legally sanctioned entity," a statement disclaiming a copyright or "granting" a work into the public domain has no legal effect whatsoever, and that the owner still retains all rights to the work not otherwise released. The owner would ...