On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:20 PM John Cowan <co...@ccil.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 4:13 AM Henrik Ingo <henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi> wrote: >> > As noted in the preceding link, prevailing view and treatment is that >> > there is full copyright protection in some jurisdictions. >> >> Clearly it is not *prevailing* in this community. > > > No one has polled us, so no one knows if it is actually prevailing or not. > Mailing-list etiquette is generally against +1s: the Gricean maxim is "If you > can't say something critical, don't say anything at all." I for one accept > the claim that copyright protection is not, in general, waived in non-US > jurisdictions, and follows the law of that jurisdiction. (Canada for one > makes it clear that U.S. government works are copyright in Canada >
Since this has been used as a reason to oppose and reject a license where the government asserted the opposite, it seems that either the open source community prevailing view is to disagree with the US Government on this point, or the OSI failed to accurately represent the prevailing view. Absent evidence to the contrary, we should assume its the first alternative. henrik -- henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi +358-40-5697354 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://fi.linkedin.com/pub/henrik-ingo/3/232/8a7 _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
