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@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ express permission to take actions governed by copyright law.
 

	
 
Copyright holders who state that they are releasing their code into
 
the public domain are effectively renouncing copyright controls on
 
the work.  The law gave the copyright holder exclusive controls over the
 
the work.  The law gave the copyright holders exclusive controls over the
 
work, and they chose to waive those controls.  Software that is, in
 
this sense, in the public domain
 
is conceptualized by the developer as having no copyright and thus no license. The software freedoms discussed in