From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 8 23:29:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (cpe-66-1-147-119.ca.sprintbbd.net [66.1.147.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89A937B401 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: by sharmas.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 542AB5E001; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:29:12 -0700 From: Arun Sharma To: David Scheidt Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL for govt funded/developed projects ? Message-ID: <20010608232912.A19629@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010608223046.00b6f6e0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@tumbolia.com on Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:40:36AM -0500 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 Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:40:36AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > > 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. I'd appreciate any pointers to good reading material on the topic. Specifically, what prevents a researcher from selling the work to Microsoft for a fee ? -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message