On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 3:41 PM Smith, McCoy <mccoy.sm...@intel.com> wrote:
> 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. > Government code is only public domain if it is written by actual government *employees* like Arthur David Olson (creator of the Olson timezone database and supporting code, now maintained at <https://www.iana.org/time-zones>. If software written by government *contractors*, which much of it is, its copyright status is whatever the contract says, and typically the contractor retains that copyright. John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org Note that nobody these days would clamor for fundamental laws of *the theory of kangaroos*, showing why pseudo-kangaroos are physically, logically, metaphysically impossible. Kangaroos are wonderful, but not *that* wonderful. --Daniel Dennett on zombies
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