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Date:      Sat, 09 Jun 2001 14:00:13 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>, Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: GPL for govt funded/developed projects ?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010609135915.04436a50@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0106091430560.45567-100000@shell-1.enterac t.com>
References:  <DHEDJIFGMBALKGPEKCFKKEILCAAA.arun@sharmas.dhs.org>

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At 01:37 PM 6/9/2001, David Scheidt wrote:

>It's not much.  But not all work done for the government is work for hire.
>Quite a bit is standard contract work.  The Feds usually acquire the code as
>part of the contract, though.

In which case it's a work for hire due to the explicit provisions of
the contract. What I'm saying is that the government seems to be
ignoring this and allowing the GPL to propagate.

--Brett


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