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Date:      Sat, 09 Jun 2001 10:33:26 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
Cc:        Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: GPL for govt funded/developed projects ?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010609103147.04434da0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0106090036500.17565-100000@shell-1.enterac t.com>
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At 11:40 PM 6/8/2001, 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.

If it's a work for hire, the law considers it to have been produced BY
the government. It has all the rights to the work that exist, and is 
compelled to relinquish them by putting the work in the public domain.

--Brett


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