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no way, it is totally different - or do you recognise 'Public Domain' as GPL compatible or 'Free Software'?
Software placed in the public domain is very much like BSD-licensed software - you can do whatever you want with it. Since both types of software guarantee the 4 essential freedoms, they are free software. And since they are free software, they automatically become OSS.
- -- Anant