>>From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-boun...@lists.opensource.org] >>On Behalf Of VanL >>Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 12:32 PM >>To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org >>Subject: [License-discuss] Government licenses
>>As he described it, goverment-written code is all public domain. >>Unfortunately, the predominant effect of that public domain status for the >>code was that government contractors would take the code, make trivial >>modifications, and sell it back to >>the government under a proprietary >>license - which they were within their rights to do. But if it’s public domain, the government has no right to dictate how those modifications are subsequently licensed. That’s sort of the whole point of public domain.
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