Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards
Giacomo A. Catenazzi said on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:27:13AM +0100,:
> >All works of the United States Government (of which FIPS 180-1 is one)
> >are ineligible for copyright and are explicitly public domain.
>
> There are public domain only in the United States, IIRC
Why do you say so??
AFAIK, copyright is granted by countries on a reciprocal basis; no
country grants a copyright for a `foreign work' when such work does
not enjoy any protection in its country of origin, nor a period longer
than what it enjoys in its originating country. Correct me if I am
wrong.
Again, different countries may treat this differently.
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