stefan, "On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a public statement stating that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) were put in the Public Domain [...]"
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/
Full text: https://genius.com/Cern-statement-concerning-cern-w-3-software-release-into-public-domain-annotated
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