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This is a complete, and irrevocable,
dedication of those copyrights.
This dedication is in honor of the founders of the United States
government, who originally specified a copyright term of 14 years,
optionally renewable for another 14. As I am an advocate of shorter
terms of copyright than exist today, I am happy to use those original terms
for this site (and forgo the "renewal term" in this case).
I intend to keep
dedicating an additional year's worth of copyrights of versions of this site
to the public domain at the start of every new year.
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Carnegie Mellon
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