[globular-toast]

It shouldn't be. The US has the right idea with public domain, but that concept doesn't really exist anywhere else in the world and, for some reason, doesn't really exist for software at all.

[ric2b]

> The US has the right idea with public domain, but that concept doesn't really exist anywhere else in the world

It does in my country, Portugal, at least: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom%C3%ADnio_p%C3%BAblico

And it sounds like it comes from some "Berne convention" in which a lot of other countries also participated.