Re: NEC Licence (Work of US Gov. Employees)
John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
> Right. The author is forbidden to enforce its copyright. No one else has
> any standing to do so. You have no rights to the material: you cannot sue
> people who make copies without your permission. Neither can anyone else,
> so everybody is free to do as they please with it. Your distribution of
> copies of the material with a license attached cannot change that fact.
I think we're in violent agreement there, so let me restate a point
which I think we're sticking on:
It's possible to a take a public domain work, derive some other work from
it (for example, by compiling the program -- perhaps with other changes)
and sell it for a lot of money under a restrictive license.
--
Raul
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