[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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