On 2011-01-27 12:18 , Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 1/27/11 10:04 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2011-01-27, Stephen Hansen<me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote:
On 1/25/11 3:02 PM, rantingrick wrote:
This is a major flaw in the design and i would be
happy to fix the flaw. However our "friend" Fredrick decided to
copyright the module to himself! What a jerk! Which is quite
disgusting considering that Tkinter, and TclTk are completely open
source!
Uh. ... LOL.
Copyright doesn't mean what you think it means.
Tkinter is copyrighted. Python is copyrighted. Tcl/TK is copyrgithed.
In fact: everything that is "open source" is copyrighted. By
definition[* see footnote].
One (domestic US) exception would be open-source software written by
an employee of the US federal government. Works produced by the US
Government are not copyrighted under US domestic copyright law. Such
works are copyrighted under international law (which is probably what
the Python maintainers care about).
I've actually wondered a bit about that: but the only open source
software that I'm aware of that's been government-adjacent has ended up
being written/owned by some University or joint venture funded by a
government agency -- it didn't fall into the public domain category of
content created directly by the federal government.
Are you aware of any code out there that is? Just curious. I'm not
arguing that the exception doesn't exist or anything.
A lot of stuff from NIST is legitimately public domain. E.g.
http://fingerprint.nist.gov/NFIS/
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that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
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