Re: License for NIST datasets

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On Thu, 2021-08-26 at 12:28 -0500, Bryan Sutula wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-08-26 at 17:16 +0000, Davide Cavalca wrote:
> > NIST Standard Reference Data (SRD);
> >  ©Copyright [©YEAR] by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of
> > the
> > United States of America. All rights reserved.
> > ---
> > 
> > To my untrained eye, this looks like a fairly standard copyright
> > attribution thing and should be ok to redistribute and package in
> > Fedora, but I'd like an official blessing as I don't see this license
> > listed on
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main
> >  
> 
> The phrase "all rights reserved" indicates that no permission has been
> granted for anyone to make copies.  On the surface, we should not
> redistribute this content.
> 
> I am surprised, though, that publicly-funded work would be restricted. 
> Perhaps one of our attorneys could comment?

So I'm definitely not an expert, but my understanding is that "All
rights reserved" is just a copyright affirmation phrase, it doesn't
actually restrict/impact redistribution in itself. If you look at
https://github.com/search?q=%22All+rights+reserved%22 it's all over the
place, even in projects under permissive licenses.

Cheers
Davide
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