From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 9 10:51:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (smtp-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9428637B405 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 10:51:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABC76308; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:51:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:51:24 -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: <4.3.2.7.2.20010609103147.04434da0@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 Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Brett Glass wrote: :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. Well, no. 17 USC 105 : Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise. (the Commerce Department produces some standard reference data that is covered by copyright, because another statute says it is.) -- 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