Noun
property rights that are held by the public at large
Source: WordNetLinux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works. Steve Ballmer
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality? Jack Valenti
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. Clare Short
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory. John McAfee
What is familiar to professional scientists highly needs to be placed in the public domain. Jacques Babinet
If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network. John McAfee