@ricmac (The Guardian 28 Sep 2025 "Why I gave the WWW away for free") "In 1993, I convinced my Cern managers to donate the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone." PD means it had no copyright. CERN amended it later in 1994 to prevent appropriation. "The new versions will remain freely available, for general use, and at no cost. The only change is that the material distributed will remain copyrighted by CERN." https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web