From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 9 9:33:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7180C37B405 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 09:33:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA25259; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 10:33:31 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010609103147.04434da0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 10:33:26 -0600 To: David Scheidt From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GPL for govt funded/developed projects ? Cc: Arun Sharma , In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010608223046.00b6f6e0@localhost> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message