[Novalug] Public Domain [was Re: Fun with bash]
Beartooth
karhunhammas@Lserv.com
Tue Jan 2 11:56:36 EST 2007
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Ruegsegger wrote:
> Just to clarify, I'm not saying you can't make your license as
> liberal and unconstraining as you please. I'm just repeating
> what the lawyers told me, that that's not the same as public
> domain.
Note on the special case you sited: the law used to say
that any work created by a gummint employee on gummint time was
automatically -- and the Commerce Department, I think it was, had
had to tie itself in knots back in Anno Domini Whatever, to get
around that. Dunno if that's changed in the last -- migawd --
twenty years ...
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