Re: What is public domain? Was: Re: wdm on debian??

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

john@dhh.gt.org <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
> The copyright on works created by US government employees on
> government time belongs to the government. The US copyright law says
> that the government may not use said law to enforce its copyright:
> thus anyone can copy such works with impunity *in the US*. Such works
> are not, however, in the public domain. They may not be DFSG free,
> since the government might be able to sue you in the courts of another
> country for copying them there.
>
> Bizarre, isn't it?

I'm not aware of any country whose laws would let the U.S. Government
sue for copyring something which is freely copyable (though stuff like
Clinton's declaration of a national emergency because of software might
lead in that direction).

Anyways, I don't think we have to toss "expect" out of main.

-- 
Raul