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PD
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PD /P-D/ /adj./ Common abbreviation for `public domain',
applied to software distributed over Usenet and from Internet
archive sites. Much of this software is not in fact public domain
in the legal sense but travels under various copyrights granting
reproduction and use rights to anyone who can snarf a copy.
See copyleft.
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