See also: MDK: Jargon File.
The Jargon File (also Hacker's
Dictionary; Q1535068
on Wikidata) is a computer hacker dictionary/compendium that's been
collaboratively written and updated by a number of prominent hackers,
such as Richard Stallman and Erik S Raymond, since 1970. It is a chiefly
important part of hacker culture.
The work informally states it's in the public domain and some have successfully published it commercially, although there is no standard waiver or license – maybe because such waivers didn't really exist at the time it was started – and so we have to suppose it is NOT formally free as in freedom. Nevertheless it is freely accessible e.g. at Project Gutenberg and no one will bother you if you share it around... we just wouldn't recommend treating it as true public domain.
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