RE: Re: Software Licensing Agreement - Public Domain dedication

> One such risk is that once dedicated to the public domain a work (the
> original work "OW") is free to be chopped up, modified and used by
> whomever, and then locked up as a new copyrighted work with
> all rights
> reserved.

Doesn't the originality test solve this? It does in jurisdictions in the British tradition.
tja

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