Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:26:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL for govt funded/developed projects ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10106091220170.79911-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0106090036500.17565-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, David Scheidt wrote: :On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Brett Glass wrote: : :: ::Probably. If the law says that something has to be in ::the public domain, than any attempt to apply another ::license to it is just invalid. : :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. That's a huge, very important, and widely misunderstood difference. That depends on how it was paid for. Code developed under contract to the US Govt. is just like code developed under contract to any other customer. If the contract spells out that the code produced belongs to the Fed, guess what, it belongs to them, and unless it's FOUO restricted (pretty much all of it) and/or classified (a fair amount) it's availabe under FOIA. Most code produced for the govt. under contract belongs to them; they're real insistent on that. They also stamp everything FOUO out of habit, keeping it safe from the people who paid for it from getting it by way of FOIA. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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