Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:50:57 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: government and public domain (was Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop) Message-ID: <p05101000b848ee2c449c@[10.0.1.48]> In-Reply-To: <59pu59utoo.u59@localhost.localdomain> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0112192139110.26995-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <59pu59utoo.u59@localhost.localdomain>
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At 7:40 PM -0800 on 2001/12/20, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > >http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%22Copyright+Act+of+1976+(House+Report+94-1476%22+group:*gnu.misc.discuss*&hl=en&rnum=1&selm=950u2e%24rm8%241%40coward.ks.cc.utah.edu > > the House Judiciary Committee Report that accompanied the > passage of the Copyright Act of 1976 (House Report 94-1476) says: > > The effect of section 105 is intended to place all works of the > United States Government, published or unpublished, in the public > domain. Note that this does not apply to work that is classified, or For Official Use Only. Since just about everything in the gov't can be designated FOUO, this is a huge loophole that makes the above quoted material almost totally irrelevant. > I've noticed that much stuff that comes out of the Federal government > is launder though small companies who are paid to produce the work and > then are allows to retain ownership of the work which they license to > the Feds. Nice work, if you can get it. That's only for material that is not classified or FOUO. For classified and FOUO work, the source and everything related to it belongs to the government, and must be turned over by the contractor (i.e., the contractor is not allowed to keep a copy on their systems after the contract is terminated). -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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