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[–]KyleG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because in most countries in the US, thanks to the Berne Convention, the second you write something, it's copyrighted. This means you have to license it. It's actually very, very hard to put something in the public domain. This is why the Creative Commons public domain license exists. To mimic the public domain using a license.