On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 23:20 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > 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 Thanks for the correction, Spot, this is good reading. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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