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by ornitorrincos 2761 days ago
no, open sourced software has copyright, but with a license that fits the open source definition and allows extra rights(be it BSD, MIT, GPL, etc...)

The only software with no copyright is that placed in the public domain, which is usually discouraged as not all countries allow the author voluntarily assigning something to the public domain, as such it's encouraged to selected an extremely permissive license, like the ISC license for example.