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Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards



On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:12:28PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote:
> As mentioned in my previous mail, I am creating a package for
> hashcash.  The source for the package includes a document,
> fip180-1.txt, which is a copy of the Federal Information Processing
> Standards Publication 180-1 (the definition for SHA-1).  I am unable to
> determine whether or not FIPS documents are free, and was wondering if
> anyone had any experience with that.
> 
> The FIPS home page is: http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/
> 
> Again, please cc me as I am not subscribed.

All works of the United States Government (of which FIPS 180-1 is one)
are ineligible for copyright and are explicitly public domain.

-- 
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> 0x560553e7

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