Re: What is public domain? Was: Re: wdm on debian??
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Guys, what exactly *is* public domain? Is public domain DFSG-ok? Gene (whom
> I'm Cc'ing here) is the author of wdm, a nice looking login panel (xdm
> derivative). He would like to include some pictures taken with the Hubble
> Space Telescope (HST) as possible backgrounds for wdm. The images (some of
> you may know them, the so-called "Pillars" [1]) are in the public domain
> according to GSFC. Can those images, without NASA's written permission, be
> distributed on a cd-rom?
When I have asked these questions of NASA, (from their web site data) I
was given a longwinded legal document which seemed to say that the only
thing you could not do was use the name of NASA in any advertising
context, which seems, from the longwinded nature of the document, to
include just about everything.
It seems that if you never mention NASA you can use them, but YMMV.
Luck,
Dwarf
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