From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 8 22:40:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5DE37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 22:40:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4DC62A5; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:40:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:40:36 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-X-Sender: To: Brett Glass Cc: Arun Sharma , Subject: Re: GPL for govt funded/developed projects ? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010608223046.00b6f6e0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Brett Glass wrote: : :Probably. If the law says that something has to be in :the public domain, than any attempt to apply another :license to it is just invalid. The law says no such thing about works produced under contract for the US government. Stuff produced *directly* by the US federal government or its employees is public domain, stuff produced *for* the US government need not be. That's a huge, very important, and widely misunderstood difference. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message