On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 20:59 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > From my time there, my understanding was that code created and published > by the U.S. government (or contractors under hire to do so) is public > domain, and the government isn't allowed to deny the public the right to > modify code it produces. This probably bears a closer look and some > communication to see if someone just mistakenly slapped a license text > on it to be open-sourcey. Contractors are exempt from this. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_the_United_States_Government#Works_produced_by_contractors The good news is that this license has been revised several times, and the latest incarnation is Free and GPLv2/v3 compatible. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/SCRIP License: SCRIP Thanks, ~spot _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
