Re: non free IETF's RFC documents in .orig.tar.gz
John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:
> Stephen Frost writes:
> > Ah, alright, well, my initial comment of 'no copyright statement' is
> > correct then. If the RFC was actually written by the US Gov't it's
> > possible that it's actually in the public domain..
>
> If the work was written by the US Government it is certainly (effectively)
> in the public domain. It is also in the public domain if it was published
> before March 1 1989 without a copyright notice.
Yeah, but there are lots of things which are joint research projects
and the non-US-Government piece owns copyright. And, in fact, DARPA
is responsible for many such projects.
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