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PD
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/PD/ , 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.