From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 9 12:24:30 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 AF7B937B401 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:24:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arun@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: from z3 (z3.mirabella.net [192.168.1.2]) by sharmas.dhs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC8395DFE4; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:24:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Arun Sharma" To: "David Scheidt" , "Brett Glass" Cc: Subject: RE: GPL for govt funded/developed projects ? Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:17:55 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal 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 > :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.) In this case, www.sandia.gov seems to be a part of the US government. My understanding is that people who worked on this project are US government employees. So their work becomes a work of the government, doesn't it ? How is "work for hire" legally different from "work of the" government ? -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message