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• PD: /P-D/ 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....
• copyleft: /kop'ee-left/ [play on `copyright'] n. 1.
  The copyright notice (`General Public License') carried by {GNU} {EMACS} and other Free Software Foundation software, granting reuse and reproduction rights to all comers (but see also {General Public Virus})....
• GPL: /G-P-L/ n. Abbreviation for `General Public License' in widespread use
  ee {copyleft}, {General Public Virus}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• copyleft /kop'ee-left/ n. [play on `copyright'] 1.
  The copyright notice (`General Public License') carried by GNU EMACS and other Free Software Foundation software, granting reuse and reproduction rights to all comers (but see also General Public Virus)....
• Q: Does Bill Gates use public domain software? A: Yes, as all of the public has become Bill Gates' domain.
• domainist /doh-mayn'ist/ adj. 1. [Usenet, by pointed analogy with "sexist", "racist", etc.
  ] Someone who judges people by the domain of their email addresse...
• big-endian: [From Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] adj.
  1. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored `big-end-first')....
• domainist: /doh-mayn'ist/ adj. 1. Said of an {{Internet address}} (as opposed to a {bang path}) because the part to the right of the `@' specifies a nested series of `domains'
  for example, esr@snark.thyrsus.com specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com....
• harchive: /shar'ki:v/ [UNIX and USENET; from /bin/sh archive] n.
  A {flatten}ed representation of a set of one or more files, with the unique property that it can be unflattened (the original files restored) by feeding it through a standard UNIX shell...